katrin verclas

JD Lasica interviewed me at the Aspen Roundtable on Mobile Phones in Civic Engagement and posted the video on OurMedia - quite fitting. I am talking about MobileActive.org, and how the incredibly innovative and creative people of the MobileActive community are making the world a better place with your work, ideas, and knowledge. I describe some of the great projects that we have featured here - your projects, and your work. Thank you for all you do!

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MobileActive's staff is doing much traveling these days! Meet me at the Skoll Forum in Oxford, England if you happen to be there where I am part of a workshop on cross-cultural (mobile) communication and am pitching a project to an innovation panel of smart social venture folks. How fun is that!

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MobileActive's Katrin Verclas has been called a "changent" -- or change agent -- by Changents.com. Katrin was awarded the "changent" title for being a "technology mobile-izer." From Changents.com:

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MobileActive's Katrin Verclas will be at PopTech in Maine for a special two-hour session on 'mobile empowerment." Together with Joe MacCarthy from Nokia and Nathan Eagle from MIT's EPROM project, we will explore how mobile phones are used in civil society, particularly in the developing world.

MobileActive will focus on civic empowerment and democratic participation, of course, and on economic empowerment. We will tell some of the stories of the mobile pioneers for social change around the world who are part of the MobileActive Community. Join us live!

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