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July 15, 2005
Political Applications/Ideas
* Live 8 series of concerts. At concert, send a text message in support of debt relief for African nations.
* U2 concerts. Bono pitches his anti-poverty ONE campaign and asks people to text in their names to sign up to the list. As they do, the names are displayed on giant screen.
* disaster warning: tsunamis, tornados, escape routes in the event of terrorist attacks. more info about disaster systems here and here and here and here and here's an article about why uptake has been hampered by carriers
* disaster relief donations. Katrina: 2HELP by Verizon, Tsunami: 4CARE
* general organization and campaigning:
- greenpeace argentina
- txtpower movements in the philippines, s. korea, spain
* SMS in a box - frontlineSMS - hook your nokia phone up to a laptop to work as a mobile low-capacity sms gateway
* mobile fundraising - get people to donate using SMS - check out mobileaccord - problem is that currently, the carriers take 50%
Posted by ben at July 15, 2005 01:02 PM
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