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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:
SOS SMS Mechanics
Ellene,
Thanks so much for providing such a great step -by-step process of how you've been able to implement the SOS SMS Helpline. I hope this will give others ideas about how they might implement a similar system for other populations that might find themselves in dire situations.
It would really be great if the Manila International Airport would make it possible for the posters to visible both as people leave the country but also as they re-enter as so many OCWs leave the country many times over the course of their working lives. They may have a good experience one time and very bad experience the next. But people who go to work abroad have always heard the terrible stories - they just don't believe it will happen to them. Providing a number they can call, still allows people to hang on to the dream but most of us are interested in having a bit of security along with us. Your SOS SMS Helpline can certainly be a lifesaver.
Great work - thanks for sharing this.
Nancy Pearson, New Tactics Program Manager
Nancy Pearson, New Tactics in Human Rights Program Manager