Ebenezer Obadare in The Great GSM (cell phone) Boycott: Civil Society, Big Business and the State in Nigeria Dark Roast Occasional Paper Series No. 18 (2004).
The Human Emancipation Lead Project in Nigeria in the 2007 elections. Task Force Poll Watch (TFPW) and Quick Count 2007 in the Phillipines ensured impartial elections documentation of election-related fraud and violence , ballot counting and producing results earlier than the Commission on Election. . In the case of Quick Count 2007, partners from the provinces were sending SMS updates on their local election count. Quick Count entered this data on its database for further anlalysis. Several regions reported discrepancies in tallying between the municipal and the provincial results. In addition TFPW received reports of election fraud and violence via mobile phone, internet and facsimile. The task force was instrumental in discovering a supposed 100,000 votes shaved from 2 Senatorial candidates. Residents of the eastern Chinese city of Xiamen blocked construction of a chemical plant with a text message campaign
The Indian Ocean tsunamis, earthquakes, air disasters, oil spills
Emily Gertz, 'Fahamu: Pan-African Text Messaging for Social Justice,' October 31, 2005, World Changing, http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003694.htm http://www.pambazuka.org/en/petition/
Sending Out an SMS A rapid-response mobile phone network engages a youth constituency to stop torture fast by Anneke Bosman Edited by Liam Mahony, published by the New Tactics Project of the Center for Victims of Torture, Minneapolis, USA . www.cvt.org , www.newtactics.org
Ebenezer Obadare in The Great GSM (cell phone) Boycott: Civil Society, Big Business and the State in Nigeria Dark Roast Occasional Paper Series No. 18 (2004).
On-going project at Mayange Health Centre in Rwanda; a partnership between Ericsson (provided software and solar charger) , MTN (Rwanda) provided phones, Government and Earth Institute of Columbia provided funding
Excerpts from ‘M4G in Kenya – Overview’ http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/117283
FrontlineSMS has been successfully deployed in over forty countries in many areas by grassroots NGOs including the Nigerian and Philippine elections, in the sending of security alerts to fieldworkers in Afghanistan, market prices to smallholder farmers in Aceh, and to circumvent government restrictions in countries including Zimbabwe and Pakistan.
In 2004 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, 59th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) (CD-ROM) (pp. 4929-4934). Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association
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