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Mobile Donations US: individuals can text HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross for  Haiti efforts. You can donate $10 up to three times, and 100% of the  donations will reach the Red Cross Foundation. This effort is run by Mobile Accord. US: Individuals can also text YELE to 501501 to donate $5 to the Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti Foundation. [Update] 501501 is run by the Mobile Giving Foundation. In their terms, the foundation says "there may be some designated organizations that have permitted the MGF to grant 5-10% of each donation to the MGF to cover administrative costs associated with the MGF’s mission." We were unable to contact Yele or Mobile Giving to check the specifics of their partnership). [Earlier we had said 501501 was run by 501media. This is not true in the US, 501501 in Canada, however, is run by 501 Media]. Germany: text HAITI to 81190 to donate $5 (out of which $4.83 will go to Aktion Deutschland Hilft).   Denmark: text Katastrofe to 1231 to donate 150 kr, or call 90 56 56 56.   More organizations that are workin in Haiti in relief efforts are listed on  The NYTimes Lede Blog and more on  MSNBC's How to Help page. [Update] US: You can now text the word "Haiti" to 85944 to donate $5 to the Rescue Union Mission and MedCorp International, and the word "Haiti" to 25383 to donate $5 to the Internal Rescue Committee. These shortcodes also courtesy of the Mobile Giving Foundation. [Update] Canda: You can text the word "Haiti" to 45678 to donate $5 to the Salvation Army, again courtesy of the Mobile Giving Foundation.

Project Vote, which describes itself as a nonpartisan organization that promotes higher voter registration rates in low-income and minority communities, announced last week that they are working on a mobile-device-friendly voter registration application, according to a press release, that will work on anything from the BlackBerry to the magical iPad.

he mobile Internet revolution is now targeting the rural areas of Africa, where more than 70% of the continent's 890 million people live in extreme poverty and in the fringes of society

L'association Reconnect, lauréate du concours Jeunes Talents Innovation organisé par SFR, propose aux plus démunis un numéro de téléphone fixe et une messagerie. L'intérêt ? Rester joignable et maintenir un lien social.

our Eric Chatry, fondateur de Reconnect, le constat est simple : « On parle beaucoup de l'ordinateur, mais le premier outil permettant de maintenir un lien social, c'est le téléphone. »

une étude faite par Reconnect montre que 60 % des personnes en situation précaire ont un téléphone mobile, avec dans la plupart des cas le recours aux cartes prépayées.

The measuring of impact thus becomes extremely subjective.  Digital activism proponents want to count mobilization as success even when the goal is not achieved, while skeptics and pessimists point out that, by traditional measures, most digital activism campaigns are failures. 

The measuring of impact thus becomes extremely subjective.  Digital activism proponents want to count mobilization as success even when the goal is not achieved, while skeptics and pessimists point out that, by traditional measures, most digital activism campaigns are failures.

Finally, I think we shouldn't lose sight of the broader political and social impact of the Internet prior to mobilization (or, as some would put it, the "revolutionary situation"). Part of the argument that I'm making in The Net Delusion is that it's wrong to assess the political power of the Internet solely based on its contribution to social mobilization: We should also consider how it empowers the government via surveillance, how it disempowers citizens via entertainment, how it transforms the nature of dissent by shifting it into a more virtual realm, how it enables governments to produce better and more effective propaganda, and so forth