{"id":517,"date":"2008-03-25T13:16:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T21:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2020-09-28T11:51:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T18:51:21","slug":"mobileactive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/517\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileActive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Mobile Active\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/mobileActive.png\" alt=\"Mobile Active\" width=\"184\" height=\"234\"\/>Mobile phones have had a huge effect on&nbsp;society by making interpersonal communication instant and&nbsp;always available. They are also becoming important tools for political and social change. &nbsp;Here are a few examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most of the reportage, both&nbsp;text and pictures, documenting the repression of the Tibetan Independence movement has come from camera phones and SMS eyewitnes accounts.<\/li>\n<li>Twitter&nbsp;proved&nbsp;it&#8217;s value for&nbsp; emergency communications in use by&nbsp;police and fire departments and the Red Cross&nbsp; during last October&#8217;s Southern California wildfires.<\/li>\n<li>Barak Obama&#8217;s presidential campaign is using text messages to get out the vote and organize rallies. The candidate also has wallpapers and sound bite ring-tones for download by supporters. Hilary Clinton is using text messaging political organizing too.<\/li>\n<li>Zimbabwean workers in South Africa use mobile banking to send their money home to avoid having to pay bribes to border guards.<\/li>\n<li>In Nigeria, teenagers can get their questions about AIDS and safe sex answered by a free SMS service sponsored by the government and a consortium of agencies.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of these stories appeared in the mainstream press, but I heard about them first by reading MobileActive.org&#8217;s blog.&nbsp; MobileActive&#8217;s motto is &#8220;Mobile Phones for Civic Action&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;They do this by&nbsp;reporting and encouraging the use of mobile technology for the common good and by&nbsp;connecting non governmental political action organizations working in areas like human rights, democracy campaigns, environmental awareness and disaster relief with mobile technology and mobile technologists.&nbsp; Besides the blog, MobileActive&#8217;s web&nbsp; site&nbsp;has a directory of current activist projects using mobile technology, another directory of &nbsp;tools and vendors supplying&nbsp; technology of interest to political action organizations, and a great database of global mobile usage statistics.<\/p>\n<p>MobileActive is a must read for anyone interested in&nbsp;social change&nbsp;and mobile technology.&nbsp; And you can read it on the mobile web. The mobile edition of the MobileActive blog at <a title=\"mobile site\" href=\"http:\/\/mobileactive.mofuse.mobi\/\">mobileactive.mofuse.mobi<\/a>&nbsp;is created from the site&#8217;s RSS feed using Mofuse (<a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/424\">review<\/a>) and offers the full text of the ten most recent posts. Since&nbsp;my review, Mofuse has added Mowser integration which means that you can click through to a transcoded version of the full MobileActive blog to leave and read comments on items.<\/p>\n<p>Content: <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/> Usability: <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Link: <em>MobileActive<\/em> &#8211; <a title=\"mobile site\" href=\"http:\/\/mobileactive.mofuse.mobi\/\">mobileactive.mofuse.mobi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile phones have had a huge effect on&nbsp;society by making interpersonal communication instant and&nbsp;always available. They are also becoming important tools for political and social change. &nbsp;Here are a few examples: Most of the reportage, both&nbsp;text and pictures, documenting the repression of the Tibetan Independence movement has come from camera phones and SMS eyewitnes accounts. Twitter&nbsp;proved&nbsp;it&#8217;s value for&nbsp; emergency communications in use by&nbsp;police and fire departments and the Red Cross&nbsp; during last October&#8217;s Southern California wildfires. Barak Obama&#8217;s presidential campaign &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/517\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21914,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/21914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}