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Roberta Lamptey Nartey, a family health practitioner in Ghana, used to rely on the walkie talkies of the security guards to communicate between hospitals where she worked. Once she wanted a woman who had had a severe asthma attack transferred from the Korle Bu Polyclinic to the surgery unit of another hospital. Nartey left a message with the night nurses to transfer her patient and wrote a note in the patient's chart, but to her chagrin, the asthmatic patient never appeared in the surgery unit. "I told the security man at the Surgical Unit to send a message to the security man at the polyclinic using his walkie talkie," Nartey wrote.

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MobileActives have been busy at a number of events and gatherings. Members of the network have been seen at the eCampaign Forum in Oxford where leading ecampaigners from organizations such as Oxfam, Amnesty International, Unicef, and others came together to discuss the state of e-campaigns, engagement, and mobilization.  Of course, mobile activism was a topic that weaved through the conversation, especially so since mobile phone use in the UK and other parts of Europe is so pervasive and advanced. 

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