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Arab Media & Society - The end of the beginning: The failure of April 6th and the future of electronic activism in Egypt
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A focus on Facebook also appears to have missed the apparent shift of online dissent from blogs to Twitter. As Hossam El-Hamalawy puts it, “the migration is not happening to Facebook, it’s happening to the microblogs.”[25] He adds, “Facebook is one of the outlets I have, but the heavyweights are not using Facebook.” The heavyweight bloggers El-Hamalawy refers to were skeptical of the April 6th movement and its potential, even before the first strike. As blogger Demagh MAK puts it, “The thing is that it’s just easier to use Twitter than a blog. You are in the middle of a demonstration and someone is killed or arrested -- you can’t leave the demonstration and write a blog. One is killed two arrested; you can just send it by Twitter and everybody now knows.”[26] And in fact, it was Twitter that served as the most important clearinghouse for information regarding the events of April 6, 2009.
- This is temporary and linked to mobile updates. Mobile status updates are only a part of a general-purpose social network that can make any real effect - on 2009-10-28
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Add Sticky NoteFor starters, a sophisticated registration-and-tracing system is now in place for mobile phones, allowing the government to track users, interfere with their signals, and shut down large-scale attempts to text message. The Egyptian government successfully blocked the routes of activists’ text messages during the 2009 strike.
- Any sources for this? - on 2009-10-28
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FrontlineSMS:Credit » Blog Archive » A new beginning… - the future of microfinance
"Our mission is simple: leverage the mobile space to extend access to affordable financial services to rural, disconnected and impoverished communities. To achieve this end, we are constructing a series of free and open source financial modules that will allow FrontlineSMS to communicate with mobile payment systems in real time, turning FrontlineSMS in to a microfinance management information system, a payroll center for small & medium enterprises (SMEs), a collection and distribution center for micro-insurance premiums and payouts, and a detailed center for individual credit histories and scores."
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Daily News Egypt - Mobile phone, internet users up in Egypt
According to a report by the Information and Decision Support Center, 44.59 million people in Egypt hold mobile phone subscriptions. This is an increase of 12.4 million over the first quarter last year.
The number of internet users in Egypt also expanded in the last year, from 10.92 to 13 million users.
The Rules of Beeping: Exchanging Messages Via Intentional "Missed Calls" on Mobile Phones
This article explores the practice of "beeping" or "missed calling" between mobile phone users, or calling a number and hanging up before the mobile's owner can pick up the call. Most beeps are requests to call back immediately, but they can also send a pre-negotiated instrumental message such as "pick me up now" or a relational sign, such as "I'm thinking of you." The practice itself is old, with roots in landline behaviors, but it has grown tremendously, particularly in the developing world. Based on interviews with small business owners and university students in Rwanda, the article identifies three kinds of beeps (callback, pre-negotiated instrumental, and relational) and the norms governing their use. It then assesses the significance of the practice using adaptive structuration theory. In concluding, the article contrasts beeping with SMS/text messaging, discusses its implications for increasing access to telecommunications services, and suggests paths for future research.
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CellSpotting, A Global Location Based Information Service
“CellSpotting.com” is a global location based information service for mobile (GSM and UMTS) users.
Use CellSpotting to find information for the place you are at! and even better, you can help and give information to others about places you know! CellSpotting is a Collaborate Location Based service built by its users.
CellTrack
CellTrack is a program to collect some phone information about the cell you are connected to - like the net monitor. For more information about GSM net search the web.
المصرى اليوم - «تنظيم الاتصالات» يخطر الجمارك بالسماح بدخول الهواتف التى تحدد المواقع الجغرافية
twibble mobile | The home of twibble
If Twitter is not delivering in Egypt, and until operators here accept laconi.ca, then at least street activists could use java-enabled and Symbian phones to keep twittering
Pakistan's 2008 Emergency and Digital Convergence - And the role of mobile phones | MobileActive.org
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"On November 6, the ousted chief justice of the Supreme Court, who had been placed under house arrest when emergency rule was declared, chose to address the nation via cellphone. In his talk, he called for mass protests against the government and the immediate restoration of the constitution. Justice Chaudhry placed a conference call to members of the Bar Association, who relayed his message via loudspeakers. That broadcast was intended to be further relayed by members of the crowd who had planned to simply hold their cellphones up to the loudspeakers to allow remote colleagues and concerned citizens to listen in on the address. More ambitious members of the crowd planned to record the message on their cellphones and subsequently distribute it online.
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However, most mobile phone services in Islamabad went down during Chaudhry's address, prompting suspicions that they had been jammed by the government. In the first few days of the emergency, sporadic efforts to cut telephone lines and jam cellphone networks were common, even though the telecommunications infrastructure in Pakistan is privately owned. Mobile connectivity at the Supreme Court, protest sites, and the homes of opposition politicians and lawyers who were placed under house arrest was jammed at different times. In off-the-record interviews, employees at telecommunications companies explained that the government had threatened to revoke their operating licenses in the event that they did not comply with jamming requests."
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