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~5 Billion

Mobile Subs

in 2010

of the world is „mobile‟

The Hype Cycle

Source: Gartner Group

Source: TomiAhonen Almanac

Mobile

SMS

MMS –Pics and

Video

Bluetooth

Radio

USSD

Voice and IVR

Twitter, Facebook,

Mxit

Blogs

Streaming Video

Mobile web

TV

Location-based

services

Courtesy ChildCount.org

Protests

New York Times“As prime minister, he (Mr. Thaksin) gave lower-income Thais

a taste of a better life, including cheap loans that allowed people to buy pickups and mobile phones, which inadvertently or not laid the groundwork for the current political movement.”

"In the past they were upset, but they weren't cohesive as a force and coherent in their agenda. New technologies have enabled them to unify their disparate voices of dissatisfaction.”

Documentation of

Human Rights Abuses

and „Sousveillance”

Election

Verification

Courtesy National Democratic Institute

SMS Codes

PC01506 ST1 B4 C23 D2

E24 F1 G2 J1 R12 S3 T1

T100 U100

Outgoing SMS Messages

Citizen

Reporting

citizen reports

official reports(NGOs)

*

Results

86%

10%

3% 1%

web

twitter

sms

e-mail

YES 3% SMS. Apparently Mexican NGOs prefertwitter and web

overSMS

Courtesy Cuidemos El Voto

Budget

Monitoring

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format:1#constituencyname#projectname#comments e.g

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