NGOs: Mobile Social Networks for Social Change
Steven Noble on Twitter sent me to United Nations Foundation linked to unFoundation.org which then linked to this paper by Vodafone Group Foundation and United Nations Foundation (well, you guys always wanna know where I find my stuff) and a paper called Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in Mobile Use by NGOs: (pdf here)…
Steven Noble on Twitter sent me to United Nations Foundation linked to unFoundation.org which then linked to this paper by Vodafone Group Foundation and United Nations Foundation (well, you guys always wanna know where I find my stuff) and a paper called Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in Mobile Use by NGOs: (pdf here)
GLOBAL HEALTH
1. Delivering Patient HIV/AIDS Care (South Africa)
2. Connecting Health Clinics and Remote Health Workers (Uganda)
3. Lowering the Barriers for Access to Public Health Data (Kenya, Zambia)
4. Connecting Youth to Sexual Health Information (United States)
HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
5. Delivering Food Aid to Iraqi Refugees (Syria)
6. Facilitating Communication in Emergency Situations (Peru, Indonesia)
7. Text Messaging as a Violence-Prevention Tool (Kenya)
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
8. Text Messaging to Save Trees (Argentina)
9. A Survey of Text Message ‘Infolines’ (South Africa, United Kingdom)
10. Environmental Monitoring with Mobile Phones (Ghana)
11. Protecting Wildlife and Human Wellbeing (Kenya)
Recommended Reading
Mobilizing Social Change. Besides Mark Pesce, how many of us really understand the impact that skipping the PC and going directly to cellphone will have on developing countries (and err U.K and USA – see above)?
I realise that the disenfranchised here in OZ are possibly like rich people when compared to the likes of the poor in other countries.
And I’ll possibly get howled down for even asking.
But I wonder when we are going to really care about the truly disempowered and disenfranchised in our own back yard.
When are we as a society really gonna stop playing token games and political power posturing and ass-snifing talk-fests and really put some action (and money) into including our own poor to be part of the mobilisation of the SOCIAL network of PEOPLE (that’s know as ‘Society’, folks).
Just wonderin.
Dave