Of Cats, Mice, and Handsets: MobileActive in the Economist

MobileActive's last event in Brazil is over but the coverage continues:  Evgeny Morozov writes in the current issue of the Economist about the pioneers of using mobile phones in advocacy and civil society. 

He writes: "At a recent conference in São Paulo on “mobile activism”—a term that embraces humanitarian work as well as protest—there was much talk about how to “go beyond text” when using mobile phones. And it became clear that exuberant practice was galloping ahead of theory.

He notes rightly what MobileActives already know:  "Mobile activists have never lacked imagination, and many of them are already hard at work, thinking of clever new uses for those little devices—mostly rather crude, five-year-old models—that have become part of daily life in the poorest parts of the world."  Read the article.