Mobile Advocacy Toolkit Working Meeting in Nairobi

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[edit] Welcome to the WIKI

of the Mobile Advocacy Toolkit Working Meeting


This wiki is a working space for a two day gathering called The Mobile Advocacy Toolkit Working Meeting that will be held in Nairobi on Thursday 30th of May and Friday 1st of June 2007. The meeting is organised by the Tactical Technology Collective (TTC), in collaboration with Fahamu and directly follows the "Establishing an African Network of Mobile Activists - Start-up Workshop" organised by Fahamu at the same venue 28th-30th May.

WHAT HAPPENED THERE - WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT - PLEASE FIND IT [HERE]


[edit] Purpose of the working meeting

Mobile phones have fundamentally changed the way we communicate. Their proliferation in the global South has the potential to profoundly impact how NGOs and advocates can organise, raise awareness and increase participation.

Despite the fact that they are increasingly widespread, using them for any kind of organised activity or in tandem with other technologies such as the internet can be difficult and overwhelming. Many NGOs still need to go through a steep learning curve in order to take full advantage of this technology.

This is why Tactical Tech will be working with a small group of practitioners to develop a toolkit of easily accessible tools, materials and services on mobile technologies for use by activists and social justice organisations.

This toolkit will be used to guide advocates and NGOs in using mobiles to:

  • Provide access to information; e.g. recorded voice or audio and news updates
  • Increase participatory processes and facilitation; e.g. polling, voting, surveying, incident reporting
  • Enable citizen journalism and remote publishing; e.g. using mobiles to blog or create podcasts, to upload photographs, or for creating dynamic and interactive content
  • Conduct awareness raising and outreach; e.g. demographically targeted or time based messaging, alerts, ringtones and games or small scale applications
  • Coordinate and organise; e.g. organising meetings, flash mobilisation, calls to action
  • Provide services and coordinate; e.g. alert/SOS for migrant workers, early warning, emergency response

The main objectives of the workshop are to:

  1. agree on the vision and purpose of a mobile advocacy toolkit
  2. determine the content of a mobile advocacy toolkit
  3. form an editorial team that will work together on a mobile advocacy toolkit
  4. determine what needs to be commissioned/developed for the mobile advocacy toolkit

The Mobile Advocacy Toolkit will comprise of a boxset of CDs made available for French and English speakers including:

  • A handbook for using mobile phones in activism, containing documentation on planning and managing a mobile phone project, a range of case studies, interviews with practitioners, practical how-to guides, tips and tricks, and a future trends watchlist.
  • A detailed set of references for additional resources and reviews of web-based services.
  • A select range of reviewed and tested existing free and open source software tools.

The Mobile Advocacy Toolkit will be based on the outcomes of this working meeting. Please read more about the toolkit methodology here. Please have a look at some background thinking here and some resources already collected here.

[edit] Details of the working meeting

[edit] Agenda

Here you can always find the latest agenda, and later all the meeting proceedings Read More...

[edit] Participants

Here you can find the list of participants of the meeting with their short bios Read More...

[edit] Minutes

Here you can find the minutes of the meeting. Read More...

[edit] Logistics

Here you can find all the information about whereabouts of the meeting Read More...

[edit] FAQ

Here we tried to anticipate all possible questions and give some answers Read More...


[edit] Organisers, Partners and Contributors

[edit] Main Organiser

Tactical Technology Collective is the main organiser of the Mobile Advocacy Toolkit Working Meeting and will be the lead organisation developing and distributing the Mobile Advocacy Toolkit. Tactical Tech is an international NGO working at the nexus of advocacy and technology. It utilises its technology expertise to increase the impact of campaigns in the broad area of social justice and human rights. Read More...

[edit] Partner Organisations

Fahamu is the main organiser of the "Establishing an African Network of Mobile Activists - Startup Workshop" that will run in the three days preceding the toolkit working meeting. These two meetings are inter-linked and are both part of a broader collaboration between Tactical Tech and Fahamu to advance and support the use of mobile phones for advocacy. Read More...

Womens Net will be co-facilitating the Mobile Advocacy Toolkit working meeting. Womens Net have partnered with Tactical Tech in the past on 'Source Events' as lead facilitators and as advisors to Africa Source II held in Uganda in 2006. More recently Natasha Primo of Womens Net acted as the editor of 'Base-box'; a packaged set of free and open source tools and materials containing everything you need to set up and run a small to medium sized NGO. Read More...

[edit] Contributors

Tactical Tech would like to thank Mike Grenville of 160 Characters and Ken Banks of kiwanja.net for their contributions so far in helping with the background preparations for the toolkit. We would like to also thank Becky Faith and Gillo Cutrupi for the work they have done for the wiki and with the initial project research.



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