What are MobileTech4SocialChange Barcamps? 

Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Barcamps are local events for people passionate about using mobile technology for social impact and to make the world a better place. Each event includes interactive discussions, hands-on-demos, and collaborations about ways to use, deploy, develop and promote mobile technology in health, advocacy, economic development, environment, human rights, citizen media, to name a few areas.  Participants for Mobile Tech 4 Social Change barcamps include nonprofits, mobile app developers, researchers, donors, intermediary organizations, and mobile operators.  

NYC Event details

• A one-day event on Saturday, 21 February 2009 in New York/Hunter College's 'Black Box'  695 Park Ave., Room HN 543, New York, NY

• Exploring mobile tech to advance social development and social change goals  

• Interactive, particpatory, hands-on

• For anyone interested in how mobile phones are changing the way we organize, advocate, provide health and other social services -- in short, make the world a better place. 

Host

MobileActive.org and Hunter College's Integrated Media Arts Program 

Registration -- WE ARE SOLD OUT

• UDPATE: We are completely full as of 2/12/09.  We will add anyone interested to a waiting list should there be cancellations.   Please send an email to katrin [at] mobileactive [dot] org to be added to the waiting list.

• Registration is here: http://mobiletech4socialchangenyc.eventbrite.com/ (but please also add yourself to the list at the end of this page!)

• Registrations will be used to defray costs for a scrumptious breakfast and lunch. Please register at http://mobiletech4socialchangenyc.eventbrite.com/. 

Sessions

• Building mobile apps for change

• Mobile Fundraising 101

• An primer on mobile social marketing

• Mobiles for health

• Citizen media via your phone --apps and lessons learned

• Mobile activism in India

• Has the Revolution Started Yet?  Mobile Tech and the Power of Individuals and Groups.

• The Impact of Mobile Phones on Protests in Repressive Regimes: Empirical Results

• Understanding the Importance of Who/What Comes Next - Mobile Tech In Perspective

• ENTER YOUR SESSION YOU'D LIKE TO RUN HERE

Topics I would like to hear about 

• Mobile campaigning on a grassroots budget

• Who are the best mobile vendors for nonprofits?

• Android, iPhone oh my -- can I do my own mobile app for change?

• Lessons from the Obama campaign

• Merging mobile phones and social networks - a practical guide to migrating across platforms

• Neighborhoods, communities and mobile social change

• Measuring impact of mobile strategies

• Mobile games for change

• Beyond Capitalism and Socialism, The Mobile Economy

• Life cycle of mobile social projects - raising funds, lobbying local groups, launching final product

• Kind of jobs available in this space, and what kind of experience is needed 

• Mobile phones and networked music

• Peer-to-Peer or "meshed" mobile phone communication

• Geotagging/mobile and applications for activism

• Data collection using mobile devices

• Security and privacy issues

• ADD YOURS 

Planners 

• Marty Lucas, Hunter College

• Katrin Verclas, MobileActive.org 

Participants (aka Campers) -- PLEASE ADD YOURSELF! (make sure you've registered - otherwise we won't be able to let you in: Registration is here: http://mobiletech4socialchangenyc.eventbrite.com/)

• Katrin Verclas - MobileActive.org

• Marty Lucas - Hunter College

• Joseph Steig - Long River Ventures, Venture Well

• Nathan Woodhull - Mobile Commons

• Chris Muscarella - Mobile Commons

• Christine Gorman - Global Health Report

• Mor Naaman - Rutgers SCILS

• Gaurav Mishra, MobiChange

• Kapil Gupta, IBM

• Toru Mino - The Fletcher School, Tufts U.

• Prabhas Pokharel - Harvard U.

• Jen Chiu- Teach For All, Web Geeks for Social Change

• Oscar Salazar, UNDP

• LeAnne Wagner, Parsons DT

• Paula Winograd, Parsons DT

• Drew Cogbill, Parsons DT, Pigeon

• Sandhya Moraes, Parsons Design & Technology

• Mike Edwards, Parsons The New School for Design

• Subalekha Udayasankar, Parsons DT

• Ted Power, Google

• Joe Edelman, Citizen Logistics / Groundcrew

• Tino Kreutzer, University of Cape Town

• Adi Narayan, Columbia University

• Rebecca Mushtare, Marymount Manhattan College

• Elizabeth Hamby, Human Development Overlay District, The Environmental Simulation Center

• Michael Kwartler, Human Development Overlay District, The Environmental Simulation Center

• Nathan Bowen, New Media Lab, Intermedia Arts Group, Hunter College.

• Kristofer Ríos, People's Production House, New York

• Andree Gacoin, AIDSPortal Initiative

• Robert Worthington, AIDSPortal Initiative

• Romina Oliverio Nabuur.com

• Christoph Schmaltz, Headshift

• Paul Goodman, DAI

• Karen Schrier, Scholastic, Columbia U.

• Erik Endress, XpediteNetwork.com

• Lindsay Watt, WebMD

• G. Kofi Annan, Annansi LLC

• Patrick Meier, iRevolution & Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI)

• Janna McDougall, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)

• Sebastien Chorney, mypetbrainstorm (Toronto)

• Laura Forlano, Yale Information Society Project

• Mikhael (Kyle) Wilkinson  (AND also, please register at http://mobiletech4socialchangenyc.eventbrite.com/) 

• Steven Lehrburger, NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program

• Jacob Colker, Co-Founder / Project Lead, The Extraordinaries (http://www.TheExtraordinaries.org)

• Alan Rosenblatt, P.hD., Associate Director of Online Advocacy, Center for American Progress

• Marco Castro, NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program 

• David Mason, IntraHealth International

• Allan Benamer, socialmarkets and Non-Profit Tech Blog

• Mark Belinsky, Digital Democracy

• Liz Hodes, Digital Democracy

• Andre Blackman, RTI International, Blogger @ Pulse + Signal

• Gina Anderson, Primescape Solutions

• Dale Zak, Mobile software developer (Halifax)

• Lina Srivastava, Lina Srivastava Consulting

• Rose White, NYC Resistor 

• John Reddish, www.GetResults.com, thesuccessionplanner.com

• Josh Nesbit, www.FrontlineSMS.com

• Michael Benedict www.winrock.org, www.pciaonline.org, wingipedia

• Sarah Nelson Wright, Hunter IMA

• Jeffrey Boase - Rutgers SCILS, Center for Mobile Communication Studies

• Nadav Aharony - MIT Media Lab, Center for Future Civic Media (C4FCM)

• Persephone Miel - Internews, Media Re:public

• Bryan Nunez - WITNESS

• Ben Colmery - The Morningside Post - Columbia University

• Kristen Coco - The Morningside Post - Columbia University

• Lauren Klein - The Morningside Post - Columbia University

• Nathan Freitas - Students for a Free Tibet / The Extraordinaries

• Ted Perlmutter, Center for International Conflict Resolution, Columbia University, twitter.com/tedperl

• Rachel Stevens, Hunter College

• Heather Cole-Lewis, Yale University

Session Notes 

• Previous barcamp session notes are on the M4Change Notes page -- which we will use in New York to build the documentation and provide some continuity.  Already included: SMS applications beyond peer-to-peer; Location-based Services; Documenting human rights advocacy / abuses. 

   

Tags

• Twitter, Flickr, blog, etc tags for Mobile Tech for Social Change Barcamps is #m4change