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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.

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

December 4, 2007 | KatrinVerclas

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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.