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MobileActive08

A Global Summit about
Mobile Technology for Social Impact
October 13-15, 2008
Johannesburg, South Africa

 
 
Wireless Technology for Social Change
Read the new report on trends in mobile use by NGOs:
Wireless Technology for Social Change.

The report was commissioned by the UN Foundation/Vodafone Group Foundation Partnership and written by Katrin Verclas and Sheila Kinkade.
 

SMS smoking cessation program to Launch in LGBT Las Vegas community

December 11, 2007 | JSHolly
file under:
health, LGBT, smoking cessation, sms, technology, Text Message

A first of its kind program for LGBTs in Las Vegas will begin this month. SMS and website support will be provided to individuals who opt in to the program. There is a 70% smoking prevalence among gays and lesbians in Las Vegas and So Crush SMS will attempt to lower that rate by providing indivuals with quitting tips and links to resources via text message on a weekly basis. "We're very excited about this program. One element that separates our program from others is that we will be individually responding to each incoming message. Canned responses will only be used to identify the group new opt ins are place in. Once in a group, the message correspondence becomes individualized." Jonathan Holly, Program Developer



Human Rights and Justice Group International

file under:
advocate, aids, e-learning, education, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, ict, liberties, Nigeria, rights, technology, training
operates in:
Nigeria

contact:
53, Western Avenue, Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria

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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References / Past Projects

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.



Mobile phones and new media in pro-Tibet protests

August 11, 2007 | John.L.German
file under:
activism, advocacy, blogging, censorship, mobile phones, mobileactive, technology, video

Of the hundreds of mainstream-media news stories around the world on Wednesday August 8, 2007, about the pro-Tibet protest in China this week, the one copied below focused on the role of information and communication technologies in a compelling, vivid, and memorable way.

I hope that readers will know where this story could be taken and how it could be highlighted and used to maximum effect as an example of outstanding innovative use of free new-media tools to achieve social change -- feel free to do that, or let me know what should be done.

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The political power of the network

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technology
Online campaigns and e-petitions are only the beginning of what the net can do to politics, argues Bill Thompson.


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.

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MobNTC - MobileActive at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, Seattle

March 14, 2006 | KatrinVerclas
file under:
mobilactive, nonprofit, NTC, NTEN, technology

 

ntc logoMobileActive will be at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, running a session on mobile activism. 

Ben Rigby of Mobile Voter and TxtVoter.org and Dan Weaver from Mobile Accord will be presenting.  We'll see some campaigns in action -- bring your mobile phone.

Together with Mobile Accord, we'll be powering the mobile network at the NTC. To subscribe, text 'mobNTC" to 50555.

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