Mobiles for Activism & AdvocacyExamples, Challenges & Opportunities
Patrick Meier Director of ResearchDigiActive.org MobileActive08, Johannesburg
Presentation Focuses on
Grassroots Digital Activists…
Limited Resources Loose Networks Anonymity Individual Actors
Security Low/No Budget
Examples…
1. Using Mobile Phones to Organize and Coordinate Protests…
Protests…
Philippines ‘01 - “Coup de Text”
Protests…
Philippines ‘01 - “Coup de Text”
Spain ‘04 - “The Night of SMS”
Protests…
Philippines ‘01 - “Coup de Text”
Spain ‘04 - “The Night of SMS”
Pakistan ‘07 - “Flash Protests”
Protests…
2. Using Mobile Phone Videos to Document Human Rights Abuses…
Videos…
Egypt - “Exposing Torture”
Videos…
Tibet - “Media Blackout?”
Egypt - “Exposing Torture”
Videos…
Morocco ‘08 - “Exposing Abuse”
Egypt - “Exposing Torture”
Tibet ’08 - “Media Blackout?”
Videos…
Using a Camera Phone and YouTube to Expose Police
Brutality in Morocco
3. Using Microblogging Tools to Bridge Between Mobile Phones and
Internet Activism
MicroBlogging…
MicroBlogging…
Egypt - “Twitter out of Jail”
Egypt - “Twitter out of Jail”
China - “Live-Twittered Arrest”
MicroBlogging…
Egypt - “Twitter out of Jail”
China - “Live-Twittered Arrest”
MicroBlogging…
Egypt - “Twitter to Safety”
Issues to Consider…
1. Network Structure
centralized decentralized distributed
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networks
2. Security
Surveillance
Content Filtering
Traceability
Network Integrity
2. Security
NonID Prepaid Cards
(Anonymity)
“Mobile” Mobile Activism
(On the Move)
Avoid Centralization
(Distribute Risk)
2. Security
3. Cost
NGO Budget
Premium Rate Number
Prepaid Cards
Top-up to Subscribe?
3. Cost
4. Dissemination
Calling for Action
Using Relays
Distributed Public Sphere
Using Complementary Tools
4. Dissemination
Thank You
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