Over a hundred people representing development agencies, government offices, and mobile vendors converged on Google’s DC office yesterday for the Mobile Tech 4 Social Change BarCamp. It was inspiring to have so many minds in one space focused...
United Nations Agency Reports Huge Growth in African Mobile Subscriptions
An article published last week highlights some remarkable statistics about mobile access in Africa: where only 2% of Africans were using mobile phones in 2000, 28% have cell phones today. This exponential growth in cell phone adoption is significant...
SMS Gateway Could Help Improve Access to and the Creating of Citizen Media
The SMS Gateway was featured in a report recently released by MobileActive as an open source mobile tool that could help make citizen created media more accessible. The SMS Gateway acts as a bridge between mobile phones and Drupal websites, letting...
At any given time at SXSW, starting at 10 am and ending some time close to 2 am, there are 8 or more events happening simultaneously. It gets exhausting after 5 days, but there have been some great highlights.
Mobile conversations of all kinds have...
Almost every hand shot up in the crowded auditorium when Zack Exley, a chief organizer of Roots Camp, asked, "How many of you have been to an election recap meeting?" It was close to 11:00 am on Saturday morning, and 400 progressive political...
This week I’m hosting the 42nd Carnival of the Mobilists over at MobileActive. The Carnival is a weekly roundup of the best stories on the web about anything and everything mobile, and is a fun and fast way to read all the news from the last...
I was at an awesome Netsquared DC Meetup on Tuesday where we learned how SMS (text messaging) could be best used to monitor elections. Since we are in DC, of course there were some people in attendance with first hand expertise at using SMS for...
Political ringtones are back in the news, this time in the UK. This
article
discusses the origins of the political ringtone, pinpointing it back to
the "Hello Garci?" ringtone from the Phillipines, which was featured on
TXTPower.org. Then...
Iraqis have seen a lot more campaigning and advertising for tomorrow’s elections than for the previous one, and the candidates have gotten more sophisticated too. Not only are they using typical media sources like television and newspapers,...
Last week the MobileActive crew set up a conference call open to anyone looking to get a better understanding of the basics behind sms campaigns and the steps and costs needed to get one off the ground.
Ben Rigby from Mobile Voter led...