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Feature Online Dialogue: Using Mobile Phones for Action

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Intro

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!

Clockwise from top: Evans Wafula (Kenya) Ken Banks (UK), Ellene Sana (Philippines), Natasha Dokovska (Macedonia), Noel Large (Northern Ireland) and Katrin Verclas (United States).

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:

• Kiwanja's Database on Examples of Mobile Projects
• Intertactia Blog Post- Top 5 uses for mobiles
• The Economist article on this topic
• Mobile Active Resource page
• Pangea Day
• nGOmobile competition