There is an interesting post today on A VC about the evolution of blogging. I concur with the author
when he states that he hates the term ‘Blogging 2.0′, but for lack of a
better term I’ll roll with it.
Image: From a PowerPoint presentation by Anneke Bosman, Amnesty International, The Netherlands.
In keeping with this blog’s mission to bring you concentrated nuggets of tactical and strategic information, we continue our exploration of new tactics involving the use of mobile phones. I draw my inspiration today from various posts and papers found mostly on the sites of resource people for our tactical discussion on using mobile phones for action.
My last post covered the emergence short messaging as a tool for protest organizing in various countries, including the Philippines, how Amnesty International set up its youth-based SMS Alert network, and how to find some protest ringtones. I now turn to some incredibly creative emergent uses of wireless communications for human rights and social change work.
cc photo by Flickmor
This month’s tactical discussion focuses on using mobile phones for action. From the time the tactical notebook by Amnesty International on the use of short messaging services was published here in 2004, mobile phones have only become more powerful, multifunctional and almost universal. We can now record sound, photos, even video on our phones. The pocket devices can be used to send email, files, pictures, music, surf the web and chat, wherever we are, whenever we want.
In what ways can the power of the small computers we still call “phones” be harnessed as tools for collective action, as instruments for improving the world? What technology do we see emerging that could create innovative life-changing and life-saving tactics?
"Plan B" describes the tactic that Otpor!, a student movement in Serbia, used to break through the governments reign of fear and encourage activists not to be afraid. They accomplished this by turning government arrests of demonstrators into public spectacles that illustrated the governments repressive regime and turned the arrested into public heroes.
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