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Title:

SMS uprising : mobile phone activism in Africa / edited by Sokari Ekine.

Publisher:

Pambazuka Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xxii, 149 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Cell phones--Social aspects--Africa.
Cell phones--Political aspects--Africa.
Wireless communication systems--Social aspects--Africa.
Wireless communication systems--Political aspects--Africa.
Social change--Africa.

Other Authors:

Ekine, Sokari

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Using mobile phones for monitoring human rights violations in the DRC / Bukeni Waruzi. Mobile activism in Africa : future trends and software developments / Christian Kreutz -- Social mobile : empowering the many or the few? / Ken Banks -- Mobiles in-a-box : developing a toolkit with grassroots human rights advocates / Tanya Notley and Becky Faith -- Fahamu : using cell phones in an activist campaign / Redante Asuncion-Reed -- The UmNyango project : using SMS for political participation in rural KwaZulu Natal / Anil Naidoo -- Kubatana in Zimbabwe : mobile phones for advocacy / Amanda Atwood -- Women in Uganda : mobile activism for networking and advocacy / Berna Ngolobe -- Mobile telephony : closing the gap / Christiana Charles-Iyoha -- Digitally networked technology in Kenya's 2007-08 post-election crisis / Joshua Goldstein and Juliana Rotich -- Using mobile phones for monitoring human rights violations in the DRC / Bukeni Waruzi.

ISBN:

1906387362 (ebook)
9781906387365 (ebook)
1906387354 (paper)
9781906387358 (paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)559817320

LCCN:

2010305426

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)