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Donate Now!First-ever MobileActive Convergence a huge success
Aspiration | 22 Sep 2005 - 09:14
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MobileActive is over and all of the fabulous participants have gone home. Together with Green Media Toolshed and Marty’s great vision, we brought activists from around the globe together. All are using mobile phones in their campaigns in new and innovative ways — in the Congo, Philippines, Argentina, US, South Africa, and the UK, among other places.
Here are a few excerpts and stories from people who attended:
MobileActive Conference gets underway - I just arrived about an hour ago in Toronto for the MobileActive conference….From what I have heard, it is going to be a cool crowd from all around the world. For example, I took a cab from the airport to the hotel with Bukeni, a documentary film maker from Congo who was just in New York presenting his films on child soldiers. [Aspiration Aggregation]
MobileActive Convergence: PreConference, Meeting Bukeni Waruzi - Today, the first person I bumped into when I walked into the lobby of the hotel was none other than Bukeni Waruzi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. You can see one of the things he is involved in here - A Duty to Protect: Justice for Child Soldiers in the DRC. Watch the movie. You’ll see Bukeni in it. Great work.
Emily from Worldchanging will be writing a number of stories t follow up; we will be posting those stories as they are published.
Green Media Toolshed and Aspiration will be compiling the resources and documents generated at MobileActive to produce an activist guide to mobile phones and texting as a deliverable of this gathering. Stay tuned.
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Good luck with your event!
Sorry I couldn’t make it. Just back from a different speaking trip.
I’d be interested in folks interest in creating a PDA-friendly skin for MediaWiki. I run around with an HP6315 with GPRS and have become quite attuned to the potential of the wireless web and its limitations. I’d love to see how wikis could be handheld friendly.
I am also interested in streaming audion. I actually stream low bandwith audio (20KB and under) in either MP3 or Windows Media via GPRS (flat rate price on T-Mobile in U.S.) to my Pocket PC. So listening to the BBC World Service is something I do quite a bit.
The biggest problem I see is poor design or lack of interfaces on popular sites for the small screen format. The other problem is that mobile-friendly sites can be hard to find or the links/updating goes dead.
Some useful links:
http://dowire.org/wiki/Mobile - A bunch of recent links
http://www.loband.org/loband/main - Cuts out the junk
http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed - Test the speeed of your GPRS connection
http://mobile.treobits.com/ - Where Treo users can start
http://www.google.com/xhtml - Mobile Web Beta (saw this advertised at bus stop in the Netherlands)
http://pdamailchecker.com/ - Very simple popmail checker
http://pda.en.wapedia.org/ - Wikipedia content for PDAs
http://pdaportal.com/ - Fairly up to date
Cheers, Steven Clift http://dowire.org