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Cyclists' cellphones help monitor air pollution - tech - 02 January 2008 - New Scientist Tech

Cellphones used by bicycle couriers are monitoring air pollution in Cambridge, UK, and beaming the data back to a research lab. The technique is made possible by small wireless pollution sensors and custom software that allows the phones to report levels of air pollutants wherever they happen to be around town.

Tags: mobile, climate, activism, science on 2008-05-10 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use | MobileActive.org

Mobile technology is transforming the way advocacy, development and relief organizations accomplish their institutional missions. This is nothing news to readers of MobileActive. Our recent report Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use, released today by the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation, brings this point home.

Tags: wireless, mobile, social_change, check on 2008-04-29 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Ignatia Webs: slides update impact of mobile media in developing countries

Presentation: The impact of mobile social media in now-emerging countries

Tags: ICT4D, mobile, social_media, presentation, check on 2008-04-17 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Mobile Social Blogging and Messaging Network - Vipera

Vipera is a new mobile social network with a twist - it’s aimed at people in developing countries. That makes a great deal of makes sense. We are talking about places where to say “Facebook” would make people think of a book with faces in it, not a social network. But ask them about a mobile phone, and they will show you a charging point.

Tags: mobile, development, ICT4D, social_network on 2008-04-16 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Nomads at last | Economist.com

Wireless communication is changing the way people work, live, love and relate to places—and each other, says Andreas Kluth (interviewed here)

Tags: wireless, mobile, online, future, society on 2008-04-11 and saved by8 people -All Annotations (4) -About

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Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application - Trends in the Living Networks

Michael Arrington on Techcrunch has just written an article titled I Saw the Future of Social Networking the Other Day, referring to an unnamed start-up that has a mobile social network that runs on iPhone.

Tags: social_network, mobile on 2008-04-09 -All Annotations (0) -About

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