Sxsw

Slide 1: ~3.5 Billion Mobile Phones

Slide 2: Inflection Point -- 50%

Slide 4: What is MobileActive.org? • only comprehensive resource on mobiles for social change • a peer community • online how-to resources • innovation channel • evangelizing and telling stories about mobiles in social change

Slide 5: Mobile Media: What? SMS (text messages) MMS (photos and video messaging) WAP (mobile web) Ringtones and Wallpapers Games Applications Data Voice!!!

Slide 6: Mobiles in Politics and Advocacy SMS “letters” or petitions SMS Graffiti Phone calls to legislators Text to screen Mobilizing at and for events and elections Getting out the vote etc….

Slide 7: Some stories…

Slide 8: Burma -- and mobiles in mass movements

Slide 9: Getting Out the Vote and Poll Monitoring with Mobiles

Slide 10: Mobilization and Call-Your Politician

Slide 11: SMS Info Channels Text "cc" and then the name of the company you're wondering about to 30644

Slide 12: Text-to-Screen: Visualizing Opinion

Slide 13: Ringtones

Slide 15: Innovate. Experiment. Share. It’s a mobile revolution. Katrin Verclas MobileActive.org Katrin@mobileactive.org