(10:38 PM)
mobile phones in activism
Three cool mobile phone activisim things: endangered species ringtones, news headlines via SMS in Zimbabwe to circumvent government censorship, and SMS for women in South Africa who are victims/potential victims of domestic violence. from MobileActive.org - Mobile Phones for Civic Engagement. It seems to me that the growing presence of cell phones in the global south is much more significant to efforts for social change than in places like the US.
see also: Ethan Zuckerman's Draft paper on mobile phones and activism.
