Since in industrialized countries virtually everyone has a mobile phone, almost everyone has a
camera with them at all times. This ubiquity has changed a lot, it has positive and negative
impacts on society. Last week we talked about “happy slapping” and other brutal ways of
broadcasting violence, documented on mobile phone. Today I would like to show you some
examples of NGOs trying to use mobile phones for social change.
Some work with the opportunity of witnessing crimes and fil m to fight them:
Witness provides a service
http://www.witness.org/
MobileActive.org
http://mobileactive.org/background-why-cell-phones-civic-action
http://www.pamonet.org/?p=3
Pan African Mobile Activist Network (PAMONet)
Tactical Technology Collective, an international NGO working at the meeting point of
advocacy and technology, are about to launch the draft version of a Mobile Advocacy Toolkit.
And another positive way to make use of phones is of course art: mobile phone orchestra
Dialtones (A Telesymphony)
http://www.flong.com/projects/telesymphony/