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Texting It In: Monitoring Elections With Mobile Phones

August 11, 2007 | KatrinVerclas

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election monitoring, mobile phones, mobileactive, montenegro, sierra leone, sms

In Sierra Leone's national election today, 500 election observers at polling stations around the country are reporting on any irregularities via SMS with their mobile phones. Independent monitoring of elections via cell phone is growing aqround the world, spearheaded by a few innovative NGOs.

The story starts in Montenegro, a small country in the former Yugoslavia. On May 21, 2006 the country saw the first instance of volunteer monitors using SMS, also known as text messaging, as their main election reporting tool. A Montenegrin NGO, the Center for Democratic Transition (CDT), with technical assistance from the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in the United States, was the first organization in the world to use text messaging to meet all election day reporting requirements.

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.

MobileActive Strategy Guides in Arabic Now Available - استراتيجيات استخدام الهاتف الخليوي لإشراك المجتمع المدني: الجزء الثان

January 2, 2008 | KatrinVerclas

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advocacy campaigns, Arabic, cellphones, election monitoring, fundraising, mobile phones, mobileactive, strategy guides, استراتيجيات استخدام الهاتف الخليوي لإشراك المجتمع المدني: الجزء الثان

We are very pleased to announce the first set of translations of MobileActive's Strategy Guides into Arabic. Thank you to the National Democratic Institute for its pro-bono support for the translation.

Mobile phones have become a powerful emerging tool for participation in civil society. The MobileActive series of Strategy Guides, now in Arabic, examines the effectiveness of civil society organizations using mobile phones to build their constituent lists, influence political causes, and raise money. In the Guides we aggregate strategies, case studies, and lessons learned to encourage the adoption of mobile phones by nonprofits.

This 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.