New address showcases avant-garde uses of technology in the field.
Washington, DC (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 29, 2008 -- Mobile technology is transforming the way advocacy, development and abatement organizations accomplish their institutional missions, according to the after-effects of a all-around analysis and a alternation of case studies in the address Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use, appear today by the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation.
Well over 3.5 billion adaptable phones are in use about the apple and organizations are harnessing this technology to advice affected altruistic challenges The avant-garde use of adaptable communications approved by the groups profiled in this advertisement proves that wireless technology can be a car to drive amusing change The case studies appearance how adaptable technology has a analytical role to play in enabling the NGO association to arch the agenda bisect and bear their casework added effectively, decidedly in areas area IT basement is limited. "Well over 3.5 billion adaptable phones are in use about the apple and organizations are harnessing this technology to advice affected altruistic challenges," said Timothy E. Wirth, President of the United Nations Foundation. "Modern telecommunications, and the artistic use of it, has the ability to change lives and advice the UN break some of the world's better challenges. It can affix families afar by disaster, advice emergency abatement workers acknowledge added quickly, empower bloom workers with abstracts to advice action ache and epidemics, clue the impacts of altitude change, and even advice in the resolution of noncombatant conflicts."
Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use examines arising trends in "mobile activism" by analytic at 11 case studies of groups breath in the areas of accessible health, altruistic abetment and ecology conservation.
Among the programs accent are two battle blockage projects, both breath in Kenya. Oxfam-Great Britain and the Kenyan awning accumulation PeaceNet created a argument messaging 'nerve center' that calm alerts about agitated outbreaks during the contempo noncombatant agitation and mobilized bounded 'peace committees.' The activity served as a basic apparatus for battle administration and blockage by accouterment a hub for real-time advice about absolute and planned attacks amid battling aboriginal and political groups.
The GSM Association, calm with a drop of non-profit and clandestine area groups in Kenya, developed addition battle blockage activity that allows farmers to bottle their crops while attention wildlife. The affairs monitors instances if elephants access farmed land, and provides an aboriginal admonishing arrangement via adaptable that is abbreviation the accident of human-elephant battle in an across area as abounding as 5 bodies and 10 elephants are dead anniversary year.
"The avant-garde use of adaptable communications approved by the groups profiled in this advertisement proves that wireless technology can be a car to drive amusing change," said Andrew Dunnett, Director of The Vodafone Group Foundation. "The case studies appearance how adaptable technology has a analytical role to play in enabling the NGO association to arch the agenda bisect and bear their casework added effectively, decidedly in areas area IT basement is limited."
Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use was accounting by Sheila Kinkade (ShareIdea.org) and Katrin Verclas (MobileActive.org), and commissioned by the United Nations Foundation-Vodafone Group Foundation Technology Partnership. The report, the additional in the Access to Communications Publication Series, produces studies that accord governments, NGOs and the clandestine area analysis and recommendations on how to use technology and telecom accoutrement to bigger abode some of the world's toughest challenges.
The address aswell highlights the after-effects of a all-around web-based analysis of NGO adaptable technology use developed by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, and broadcast via the email networks of eight accomplice groups extensive a geographically and thematically assorted accumulation of NGOs: Idealist, InterAction, International Youth Foundation, MobileActive.org, New Tactics in Human Rights, OneWorld, SANGONeT, and ShareIdeas. Responses were calm December 10th, 2007 through January 13th, 2008, and generated 560 surveys completed by assembly of NGOs alive in all locations of the world.
The all-around analysis begin that 86% of non-governmental alignment (NGO) advisers use adaptable technology in their work, and 25% accept it has revolutionized the way their alignment or activity works. While the a lot of accepted uses of adaptable technology by NGO workers are articulation calls (90%) and argument messaging (83%), added adult uses, such as mapping (10%), abstracts appraisal (8%) and account administration (8%) aswell were reported.
Note to the editor: The abounding report, as able-bodied as acceptance to added complete analysis abstracts and high-resolution photographs accompanying case abstraction material, are accessible at
http://www.unfoundation.org/vodafone/communications_publication_series.asp.
About the UN Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation Partnership
The UN Foundation-Vodafone Group Foundation Partnership strives to be the arch public-private accord application cardinal technology programmes to strengthen the UN's altruistic efforts worldwide. Created in October 2005, with a £10 actor charge from The Vodafone Group Foundation akin by £5 actor from the UN Foundation, the Partnership has three amount commitments: (1) to advance accelerated acknowledgment telecoms teams to aid adversity relief; (2) to advance bloom abstracts systems that advance acceptance to bloom abstracts thereby allowance to action disease; and (3) to advance analysis and avant-garde initiatives application technology as an abettor and apparatus for all-embracing development. Further advice can be begin at: www.unfoundation.org/vodafone.
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