Posted by justinoberman on Jul 20, 2006
Voto Latino, a non-partisan youth voter registration organization aimed at Latino youths has teamed up with Mobile Voter, a San Francisco non-profit dedicated to harnessing the power of text messaging and mobile technology to drive youth oriented voter registration. Apparently, the Latino group was so impressed by the way in which young Hispanics used text messages and SMS to rally at immigration protests this spring that they have made it their goal to sign up at least 35,000 Hispanic youths nationwide using Mobile Voter's SMS services .
Posted by Jamie on Nov 21, 2006
Just a quick note about the current Greenpeace campaign surrounding the UN vote on a bottom trawling moratorium. Our international office created a South Park style viral animation featuring a song lovingly reversioned from the South Park Movie. On top of that, they're offering ringtones as MP3 downloads so you can support the campaign wherever you go. These just launched today so no idea on take-up yet but should be interesting.
Posted by Bonnie Bogle on Oct 16, 2006
Posted by Bonnie Bogle on Oct 15, 2006
Posted by Bonnie Bogle on Oct 15, 2006
Posted by Bonnie Bogle on Oct 15, 2006
Posted by Bonnie Bogle on Oct 15, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Katrin Verclas, (413) 884-0094, katrin [at] mobileactive dot org.
Michael Stein, MobileActive Strategy Guides author: (510) 883-9997, mstein63 [at] gmail dot com.
San Francisco, October 16, 2006
Mobile phones have enormous potential in electoral, voter registration, and election monitoring campaigns, finds a MobileActive Strategy Guide released today by MobileActive, a global network of organizations and individuals using mobile phones for activism and civic engagement. The Guide can be downloaded at www.mobileactive.org.
The MobileActive Strategy Guide, the first in a series investigating the use of mobiles in civil society, targets nonprofit and non-governmental organizations involved in electoral and voter registration campaigns.
Mobile phones have become a powerful emerging tool for participation in civil society. Around the world mobile phones are used to register people to vote, encourage involvement in elections, raise money for candidates, monitor election turnout, and expose electoral fraud.
"Mobile phones are widespread," said Katrin Verclas, one of the founders of MobileActive. "With close to 2.5 billion phones in circulation around the world, in many countries mobile phones are the easiest and least expensive way to communicate and are far more pervasive than the Internet. Mobile phones offer an extremely effective way for organizations to get messages out to the public, monitor elections, and encourage voter participation."
Internationally, mobile phones have been used for systematic election monitoring Macedonia and Kenya; among women voters in Saudi Arabia, and a number of popular uprisings in the Ukraine and South Korea, to name just a few. In the US, in the 2004 election, almost 10,000 people in the United States started their voter registration process through a mobile campaign; this year the U.S. based group Mobile Voter aims to register 55,000 young people to vote.
The MobileActive series of Strategy Guides is designed to equip organizations around the world with the know-how to deploy effective mobile campaigns for a variety of types of activism and advocacy. Other guides in the series will focus on issue advocacy, fundraising, humanitarian and disaster relief, and mobile organizing.
