Comments on: Future trends of mobile activism

By: FUTUREPerspective

FUTUREPerspective — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:02:45 +0000

Future #Trends>> Mobile Activism in Africa http://bit.ly/3qr8Uq key strengths: independent of time and location

By: torunn aardal

torunn aardal — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:36:42 +0000

some interesting thoughts about mobile trends in Africa – focusing on mobile activism http://bit.ly/zoMXy

By: Aware Planet

Aware Planet — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:45:34 +0000

Future trends of mobile activism : crisscrossed blog – "activism in africa": Future trends of mobile activism http://url4.eu/Bl77

By: Patrick Meier

Patrick Meier — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:31:20 +0000

Thanks for the chat earlier this morning, very interesting ideas.

On the first trend, innovative software solutions are originating more and more from Africa. A number of us see this as a potential for significant economic growth in Africa. I would highly recommend touching base with Joshua Goldstein at:

http://inanafricanminute.blogspot.com

On trend number two, will there be backlash in response to gains in transparency? Global internet filtering is on the rise worldwide and private sector companies are finding sales of censorship technologies as good business. Will the profit motive shroud transparency?

On trend three, the question of communication technology convergence is a fascinating one. Can we fathom the consequences of having ecologies of technologies? Diverse but networked technology ecosystems?

The fourth trend relates in part to the third. Will peer-to-peer networking give way to peer-to-peer capacity building? This is one of the founding assumptions behind one project I’m working on in Liberia.

Really looking forward to our future conversations!

By: Christian Kreutz

Christian Kreutz — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:27:44 +0000

Hi Carl,
yes fundraising might be also another interesting option. Whiteafrican just wrote another interesting post on mobile app in Africa: http://whiteafrican.com/2008/12/16/building-mobile-apps-for-africa/

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:40:53 +0000

Just speculating, but might there be a link between mobile banking and fundraising for social activism in future? If campaigns and CSOs need resources to grow maybe micro donations by mobile (or perhaps just airtime credits) could be an innovative and legitimate way of fundraising for this? I thought the four trends you predicted were really interesting, and the one on creativity in adapting software for contextual applications was really inspiring.

By: Chuck Warnock

Chuck Warnock — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:33:43 +0000

@ckreutz Interesting insight on 4 future trends of mobile activism. Others might want to see your post, too! --http://tinyurl.com/58qufb