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MobileActive in the Economist, NY Times, and Canadian Broadcasting Service

April 12, 2008 | CorinneRamey

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CBC, cell phones, economist, election monitoring, human rights, mobile activism, new york times, press, video

MobileActive has been in the news this week, including in a special section on 'mobility' in the Economist, titled "A World of Witnesses." The article discusses various ways that mobile phones have been used for social good, including in health, election monitoring, and recording human rights abuses.

Cellphones: The Mobile Frontier for NGOs

January 28, 2008 | KatrinVerclas

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cell phones, climate counts, fishphone, mobile phones, mobileactive, ngos, sms infolines

We are occasionally commissioned to write introductory articles about the mobile revolution and implications for NGOs for various publications. Here is one broad overview of some areas where mobiles are deployed in civil society.

Cellphones have become the most ubiquitous communication device in the hands of human beings. There are an estimated 3.5 billion mobile phones in use and there is coverage in even remote corners of the world. Cellphones have revolutionized not just the way we work and organize within cultures and societies, but have the potential to change how NGOs (non-governmental organizatios) operate.