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Mobile phones have emerged as a civic and campaign organizing tool across traditional socio-economic and cultural boundaries. Cell phone campaigns have swung elections through innovative get-out-the-vote activities, have been used to ensure impartial elections through monitoring, have resulted in massive {{tag| | Mobile phones have emerged as a civic and campaign organizing tool across traditional socio-economic and cultural boundaries. Cell phone campaigns have swung elections through innovative get-out-the-vote activities, have been used to ensure impartial elections through monitoring, have resulted in massive {{tag|collective action}}to free political prisoners or stop illegal logging, and are being used in public health strategies. | ||
MobileActive 2005 convened in Toronto to bring together, for the first time ever, {{tag|activists}}from around the world to explore the use of mobile phones in civic action campaigns. This wiki and | MobileActive 2005 convened in Toronto to bring together, for the first time ever, {{tag|activists}}from around the world to explore the use of mobile phones in civic action campaigns. This wiki and MobileActive site (http://mobileactive.org) is an aggregation of the learnings from this convergence, stories from participants and their projects, and resources for {{tag|activists}}interested in using mobiles in their campaigns. (For write-ups about MobileActive 05 go to our press page. (http://www.mobileactive.org/press) | ||
The goal of MobileActive is to grow the network of mobile activists, to share knowledge and skills, and to provide a peer network, training and resources to those interested in exploring mobile phones in their civic engagagement, mobilization, and civic action campaigns. | The goal of MobileActive is to grow the network of mobile {{tag|activists}}, to share knowledge and skills, and to provide a peer network, training and resources to those interested in exploring mobile phones in their civic engagagement, mobilization, and civic action campaigns. | ||
We aim to better understand the strengths and limits of the medium, explore available technologies for campaigners, and share lessons learned, campaign examples, and tech tools to increase activists’ ability to organize our constituencies. | We aim to better understand the strengths and limits of the medium, explore available technologies for campaigners, and share lessons learned, campaign examples, and tech tools to increase activists’ ability to organize our constituencies. | ||
Revision as of 14:43, 27 January 2006
Description
Mobile phones have emerged as a civic and campaign organizing tool across traditional socio-economic and cultural boundaries. Cell phone campaigns have swung elections through innovative get-out-the-vote activities, have been used to ensure impartial elections through monitoring, have resulted in massive collective actionto free political prisoners or stop illegal logging, and are being used in public health strategies.
MobileActive 2005 convened in Toronto to bring together, for the first time ever, activistsfrom around the world to explore the use of mobile phones in civic action campaigns. This wiki and MobileActive site (http://mobileactive.org) is an aggregation of the learnings from this convergence, stories from participants and their projects, and resources for activistsinterested in using mobiles in their campaigns. (For write-ups about MobileActive 05 go to our press page. (http://www.mobileactive.org/press)
The goal of MobileActive is to grow the network of mobile activists, to share knowledge and skills, and to provide a peer network, training and resources to those interested in exploring mobile phones in their civic engagagement, mobilization, and civic action campaigns.
We aim to better understand the strengths and limits of the medium, explore available technologies for campaigners, and share lessons learned, campaign examples, and tech tools to increase activists’ ability to organize our constituencies.
If you used mobiles in your campaign, please share your story! If you need or have resources, let us know! And if you want to join this growing network of activists from around the globe send us a note: [email protected].
Welcome to MobileActive.