Political Parties, Politics

Inventory of Mobile Data Collection Projects and Rapid Mobile Surveys

Posted on Tue, 06/22/2010 - 12:51

The use of mobile phones for quick-time data collection is proliferating around the world. To get a better understanding of the scale and scope of these new data collection efforts, we partnered with UN Global Pulse initiative to conduct a survey of present and planned mobile data collection efforts. The survey results will help identify new, quick-time data sources.

Posted on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 13:11

Citizen journalism, and with it the rise of alternative media voices, is one of the most exciting possibilities for mobile phones in activism.read more

Posted on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 12:39

As we are getting ready for our event in Washington DC tomorrow that will focus on New Tools for Better Elections, we are excited to see that more open source options for mobile data collection and analysys are becoming available than ever sbefore.  Development Seed, one of the most promising Drupal development shops around right now, has been an innovator in developing platforms for data analysis, in particular.

This article describes the latest release of its open-source platform Managing News, and its integration with a low-cost SMS gateway for mobile data collection.

Posted on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 14:35

The National Democratic Institute and MobileActive.org are hosting "New Tools for Better Elections", a conference on February 26th on new technologies for fair, representative and equitable elections. In preparation for the event, we sat down with Ian Schuler, Senior Manager of Information and Communications Technology Programs at the National Democratic Institute.

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