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World Vote Now

file under:
democracy, m-voting, voting, Voting, Democracy, and Civic Engagement

operates in:
United States

contact:
http://www.worldvotenow.com/

World Vote Now hope to hold a "global human referendum" in which every person in the world will cast a vote. They are looking into the possibility of voting via mobile phone.

References / Past Projects

Read about World Vote Now on the MobileActive blog.

Global Voting, One Mobile at a Time

January 16, 2008 | CorinneRamey

file under:
democracy, m-democracy, m-voting, mobile participation, mobile voting, voting

Voting, suggests Joel Marsden, shouldn't be a process that is confined just within national boundaries. "Could every man and woman on the planet have an equal voice and be part a global participatory process?" he asks. Joel believes that mobile phones could be an essential part of a global democracy.

VeekTheVote 2006: Mobile Communications Success

November 26, 2006 | kemblekpope

file under:
mobile, mobile activism, mobile organizing, technology, voting

Veeker (www.veeker.com), a leading mobile-to-Internet video communication service, believes that the mobile phone as a video capture and communication device had its coming out party during this year’s U.S. election.

“Veek the Vote 2006,” which received over 750 mobile video messages from Americans using the video camera in a mobile phone to show the world where they stood on Election Day, represents a new milestone for citizen journalism in the United States. “Veek the Vote 2006” was the result of a partnership between Veeker and YouthNoise (www.youthnoise.com), the Internet’s first social network for youth dedicated to social change.

Getting Out the Vote in the US: TxtVoter and Mobile Voter

March 21, 2006 | KatrinVerclas

file under:
getting out the vote, mobile activism, mobile voter, mobileactive, voting

This campaign is powered by Mobile Voter and MobileActive Ben Rigby, supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Music for America, a nonprofit advocacy for young-voter registration, will kick off a text-messaging campaign this June at concerts around the country. "The text-messaging campaign called TXTVoter, will involve artists such as Green Day, Moon Zappa and Death Cab for Cutie. During performances, participating musicians will call on concertgoers with cell phones to get registered by punching in a word designated by the musicians and then sending it off using a short numerical code. Fans will receive a reply asking them to send their name and address to receive voter registration forms . They'll get an SMS reminder to vote on Election Day." Great work, Ben. (Full disclosure: I am on the board of Mobile Voter.)