NGO participation through mobile media for social impact
April 29th, 2009 | Published in Mobile Apps, Mobile Communities, Mobile Devices, Mobile Services, Statistics on Mobile Devices
MobileActive.org is a community of people and organizations using mobile phones for social impact. They help NGOs around the world to increase effectivity by enabling these entities to organize communications, service and information delivery. In this website you can find information about mobile usage statistics in different countries as well as open source tools that NGOs can use to benefit from the 3.5 billion mobile phones around the globe.
They provide very interesting reading materials available for free download. Such is the case of the report titled A Mobile Voice: The Use of Mobile Phones in Citizen Media. This reports covers everything from the evolution of the mass media through the latest trends in the mobile media arena.
Why is this important: we can no longer rely on traditional means to be informed. With all available techonology in our hands, we have the reponsability to inform others about whatever we think is necessary. Like Jello Biafra stated once “Don’t hate the media, become the media”
Here is a video from mobileactive.org about what they do:
