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• Monitoring Elections With Mobile Phones in Sierra Leone

  Published: August 14, 2007, 3:23 am

  Tags: Smart Mobs

  The West African State Sierra Leone Elects a new president and members of parliament on August 11. In the polls 500 election observers at polling stations around the country are reporting on any irregularities via SMS with their mobile phones... Permalink: Monitoring Elections With Mobile Phones in Sierra Leone See all of FM Tech

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• Pro-Tibet from China to YouTube

  Published: August 15, 2007, 4:02 am

  Tags: Smart Mobs

  The Toronto Globe and Mail reported on August 8 about a group of internet-savvy pro-Tibet activists in China who drew global attention to their cause. The article explores their success in getting their message out rapidly and not through filters of mainstream media or government censors though... Permalink: Pro-Tibet from

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• The Internet and Youth Political Participation

  Published: August 17, 2007, 4:53 am

  Tags: Smart Mobs

  First Monday has published an article on The Internet and Youth Political Participation. I have a longer chapter on this subject coming out in November in a volume from MIT Press:In this article, the authors examine how American youths' contributions to three online worlds participatory culture, political consumerism, and civic engagement...

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• Data Visualization Train Schedule

  Published: August 20, 2007, 2:46 am

  Tags: Smart Mobs

  Francisco. Of interest to smart mobbers is the visualization of what could be thought of as the mobbing of trains at different hours of the day... Permalink: Data Visualization Train Schedule See all of FM Tech

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• Can Robots Save Lives of Miners?

  Published: August 22, 2007, 4:36 am

  Tags: Smart Mobs

  Is it possible to replace miners by robots? Or could we use robots to rescue trapped miners? In a recent report, NPR attempts to answer these questions. It is true that robots would be ideal to fill these very dangerous jobs. Obviously, they can go where humans can't... Permalink: Can Robots Save Lives of Miners? See all of FM Tech

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• Moving Beyond Nigeria's Mobile Rough Patch

  Published: August 29, 2007, 4:48 am

  Tags: Smart Mobs

  Reuters is reporting this morning that Nigeria Aims to Let Mobile Phone Users Keep Numbers. The plan is to allow subscribers to keep their numbers as they switch among providers hopefully to improve service through competition. The report includes this description of the roughness of present service in Nigeria... Permalink:

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• New Web-Scale OER Search Tool

  Published: August 31, 2007, 3:43 am

  Tags: Smart Mobs

  The Open Education Resources (OER) movement is showing increasing muscle in the Web 2.0 era. A major OER supporter, the Hewlett Foundation gives this definition: OER are teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain... Permalink: New Web-Scale OER Search Tool See all of FM Tech

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• Twelve VEs And Counting

  Published: September 7, 2007, 4:05 am

  Tags: Smart Mobs

  One of the wonders of the online world is stumbling often on to something that could not have existed quite recently. These are things that have emerged or been created within months or a year or two maybe a little longer. An example is what have come to be called virtual environments. The website VirtualEnvironments.info has collected 12 VEs

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• Kiwanja.net Sets Up Competition to Offer Prizes and SMS Platform to Grassroots NGOs

  Published: September 18, 2007, 2:32 am

  Tags: Smart Mobs

  This Monday sees the launch of Ken Banks latest project' a competition which encourages grassroots NGOs in developing countries to submit ideas on ways they could use text messaging in their work. The best four entries will win laptop computers, Nokia phones, GSM modems and $1,000 in cash, courtesy of a range of sponsors which include

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• New York City Subway Wireless Coming

  Published: September 21, 2007, 1:40 am

  Tags: Smart Mobs

  The announcement came yesterday that the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority has made a deal to bring wireless phone services to 277 of its underground stations. The picture above from the New York Times report of the announcement describes: When flooding hit the subways last month, many New York City riders were frustrated in their attempts

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• How to Make a Front Page Miscellaneous

  Published: October 2, 2007, 3:35 am

  Tags: Smart Mobs

  a SmartMobs blog post two days ago, Gerrit Visser pointed to a video debate in which David Weinberg was challenged by Andrew Keen on what he writes in his book Everything Is Miscellaneous. Walt Mossberg, Personal Technology Editor of the Wall Street Journal moderated. The video is over an hour long... Permalink: How to Make a Front

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• Second Life Discussed for Education

  Published: October 18, 2007, 2:13 am

  Tags: Smart Mobs

  Last week The Chronicle of Higher Education published a Live Discussion: Getting an Academic Life in Second Life. The discussion is a series of questions posed by educators to Merrill L. Johnson, an administrator at the University of New Orleans and his answers. A wide range of questions are addressed about hows, whys and ifs from a university

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• Red Cross Micro-blogging California Wildfires

  Published: October 25, 2007, 1:42 am

  Tags: Smart Mobs

  Twitterers and Twits caught or living in parts of California afflicted by the wildfires can now follow the Red Cross coverage of this natural disaster with second-by-second status announcements. People can sign up for Twitter from their cell phones if they don't have the service already... Permalink: Red Cross Micro-blogging

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• Mobile Metrix Social Identity for the Invisible Segment of the World's Population

  Published: November 19, 2007, 1:07 am

  Tags: Smart Mobs

  Last Thursday on November 15th Mobile Metrix initiative, with Melanie Edwards, Patrice Capitant and Nicolas Palazzo at its heart, went live with a public event that took place at Stanford University, California. Mobile Metrix aims at bringing visibility to more than 1 billion people which accounts for 12% of the world's

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• NewsTrust.net Receives MacArthur Grant

  Published: November 29, 2007, 1:24 am

  Tags: Smart Mobs

  of the political spectrum to smartmob news stories for accuracy, bias, fairness (disclosure I am an adviser)... Permalink: NewsTrust.net Receives MacArthur Grant See all of FM Tech

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