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Mobile technology is being used by citizens all over the world as the most affordable and massively adopted piece of technology. How can we harness this technology for advancing human rights and civil society participation? This dialogue is a space to share and discuss many ideas for "Using Mobile Phones for Action."
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Using Mobiles | SMS (Short Message Service)
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Mobile technology is being used by citizens all over the world as the most affordable and massively adopted piece of technology. How can we harness this technology for advancing human rights and civil society participation?
Our outstanding resource practitioners for the November-December tactical discussion shared and discussed many ideas for "Using Mobile Phones for Action". You can still contribute your ideas, questions and experiences!
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Philippe Duhamel - in his interTactica blog - Harnessing new technology for new tactics provides some great examples to get our creative ideas flowing.
- Sending out an SMS -- Supporting human rights work and activism with text messaging, or SMS - Short Messaging Service - functionality
- Organizing demonstrations -- Such as the Orange Revolution in Ukraine
- Coup de text -- Like ousting a president, it happened in the Philippines
- Protest Ringtones -- Highlighting corruption, it's being used in the Philippines
Links from the dicussion:
citizens' election audit through mobile phones
in the last mid-term elections in the Philippines last may 2007, a network of citizens --
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for Honest Elections and Truthful
Statistics or No Cheats, tried to do an election audit by organizing
individual volunteers around the country to immediately report the
number of votes counted right at the precinct level using mobile phone
and sms technology.
promoting
transparency, the reports will be made available on the internet and
may be accessed by the more than 8 million internet users around the
country.
the group was not accredited by the commission on
elections in 2007 but hopefully, they will still be around for the 2010
national presidential elections. cma is in close contact with them to
explore possibilities for the inclusion of overseas absentee voting in
the election monitoring.
for more information, you may visit their site,
http://www.geocities.com/no.cheats/