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Arnault Coulet

Hugo Chávez to Make Terrorist Threats, er, Join Twitter (via @fondapol) - 0 views

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twitter chavez venezuela

shared by Arnault Coulet on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • After getting the short end of the Twitter stick, Venezuela president, Hugo Chávez, called it "terrorism," "a battle trench" and a "current of conspiracy. "The Internet cannot be free!" he proclaimed. Since he has taken six television channels he didn't like off the air and imprisoned reporters, who knew what he would do?
  • "The microblogging site has seen an explosive rise in usage in Venezuela to more than 200,000 active accounts. With growth of over 1,000 percent in 2009, Venezuela now has one of the highest rates per capita of Twitter users in Latin America."
Arnault Coulet

Mobile Phones Creating New Opportunities for Activists - 0 views

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mobile phone telephone activisme

shared by Arnault Coulet on 17 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Increasingly widespread penetration of mobile phones around the world is creating new opportunities for activists to organize, connect and open windows to their lives.
  • co-founder of MobileActive.org,
  • Mobile phones are much more accessible for people in developing countries where Internet connections may be expensive or nonexistent
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  • It was through these innovations that Kiripi Katembo Siku, an art student from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was able to create a film that portrayed street life in the Congo’s capital, Kinshasa.
  • It was SMS that offered many of the real-time updates found on Twitter and other social networking sites during the recent Iranian and Lebanese elections that captured global attention.
  • In 2005, Greenpeace Argentina,
  • he campaign enrolled more than 4,500 activists to receive text alerts during critical legislative battles and encouraged them to text or call their representatives in a show of support for the zero-waste policy.
  • using solar power for mass texting by mobile phone someday.
  • During President Obama’s June 14 visit to Cairo, Egypt, and his July 11 visit to Ghana, subscribers in places where Internet or television might not be accessible received SMS texts with updates of his speeches. In response, subscribers were able to send in questions for President Obama to answer in a podcast.
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