AFP Blog
AUGUST 17, 2009
Mobile Citizen Journalism: The Phone As Global Equalizer « MobileBehavior: "iran-mobile-citizenThe Iranian crisis put Twitter in the spotlight as an organizational tool showcasing how the online world could be used to communicate and unite people, despite government censorship.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 17, 2009
As the latest technology allows people to “engage” from their computers/phones rather than getting their hands dirty IRL, will this impact the future of volunteerism? Digital Protests This session will explore the role that social media plays in protests, through the lens of recent events like Iran and the American health care debate.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 3, 2009
As the latest technology allows people to “engage” from their computers/phones rather than getting their hands dirty IRL, will this impact the future of volunteerism? Digital Protests This session will explore the role that social media plays in protests, through the lens of recent events like Iran and the American health care debate.
NTEN
AUGUST 21, 2009
As the latest technology allows people to “engage” from their computers/phones rather than getting their hands dirty IRL, will this impact the future of volunteerism? Digital Protests This session will explore the role that social media plays in protests, through the lens of recent events like Iran and the American health care debate.
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. In Iran we’ve seen it used to get out information and resist censorship but have also seen it used by the government to alter a mobile phone system and monitoring calls. Technology is amoral – it doesn’t care.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 18, 2011
An example is the development of a mobile app which can be downloaded and used by human rights defenders and activists on the the ground to help immediately blur the faces of people in shots they are filming with their phones. The ability to stream video directly from a mobile phone (i.e. Why are we doing this?
Tech Soup
JUNE 24, 2013
The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. Photos are the dominant form of data being shared over the Internet, mostly on Facebook and mostly from phones (68 percent). There are well over 5 billion mobile phone users worldwide, of a population of some 7.1
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