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At the moment, we are exploring ways in which mobile phones can be used in Lebanon to communicate between NGOs and the populations they serve about a range of issues, and especially with regard to safety issues (UXO), civil society initiatives, and first response mechanisms in case of conflict. Our main practice focus, though, is to host workshops in social media, including mobile technologies, for local civil society NGOs. In these workshops, we use case studies to illustrate the benefits and challenges of social media and mobile technologies and encourage participants to explore new applications that are specific to the context of Lebanon. We are a new organization and are very eager to begin connecting with leaders in this field.

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disobedientMEDIA exists to get the democratizing potential of the internet into the hands of agents of social justice, to teach them how to use it, and to explain why they should. We believe strongly in teaching teachers, journalists and citizen journalists, employees of nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations, and social entrepreneurs in countries challenged by conflict and the lagging development that often results from it. Using the technologies we teach and the principles behind them as metaphors, we also strive to relay the value of a common-good approach to problem solving, which is often lacking in societies fragmented by war and economic inequality.

Human Rights & Justice Group Int'l (Justice Group) is an independent, non-governmental and not-for-profit voluntary initiative which was established in 1999 by Nigerians from different professional, cultural and social backgrounds to enhance knowledge, respect and observance of human rights, and to encourage exchange of information and experiences for the betterment of the citizenry through the instrumentality of law, education, enlightenment and humanitarianism.

Justice Group membership is drawn from a rich blend of activists and other professionals working together on a shared commitment to justice, the rule of law and human dignity. The idea of the group was to build awareness about those rights as well as investigate and advocate various means for securing their implementation.

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We use mobile phone effectively in our e-learning programme to inform participants of the latest development in our training programs. We equally use it in our in human rights violation reporting. The organisation has a hot-line mobile number which victims of human rights abuse use to notify the organisation of the plight as well as seeking assistance for legal aid. On weekly basis we receive up to 50 to 80 distress calls from members of the public for assistance.

Further, in our eLearning courses, we use mobile phones to inform participants of course dates, time for online discussion and for e-Mobile conferencing.

Mobile phone has served us greatly as a new emerging technology for this generation.