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MobileTechForSocialChangeNewYork

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Event details

  • A one-day event on Saturday, 21 February 2009 in New York/Hunter College's 'Black Box'
  • 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
  • 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
  • ADD YOURS

 

Planners 

 

Participants (aka Campers)

 

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

 

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