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Title: TakingITMobile Working Group
Location:
Global
Categories: Technology
Media
Status:
In Progress
Timeline:
January 20 09 to October 20 09
Description:
Are you interested in mobile communications? The TakingITMobile survey is looking for your input! The aim of this research is to share innovation in the field of youth mobile communications and to brainstorm projects and solutions for the TakingITGlobal platform. By sharing examples of mobile innovation, we can examine ways of building mobile tools that are compatible with the existing mobile platform. As well this group aims to tap the larger community's mobile practices by developing a Global Mobile Survey. By sharing our practices we can start to brainstorm questions, and a survey will be distributed to the over 200,000 TakingITGlobal members. From the data gathered an environmental scan will be written up to document mobile trends among TIG users and create a list of recommendations for future applications and services.
Background:
Economists around the world are hailing cell phones as the solution for ICT development and a ray of hope in bridging the digital divide. At the London Business School it was found, “for every additional 10 mobile phones per 100 people, a country’s gross domestic product (GDP) rises 0.5 percent.” Soon there will be more cell phone users than literate people on the planet. This signifies a shift into a new age of digital literacy, where avatars, emoticons, pictures, sounds and videos often hold more power than names and numbers.rnrnOnce again on the front lines of this new revolutionary technology are youth. According to the MSN/MTV Circuits of Cool report, “The mobile phone is ingrained into young people’s everyday lives, with 42% claiming it’s the first thing they look at in the morning and they last thing they do at night.” Cell phones have been used by youth around the world as a tool for political mobilization, from getting youth out to vote, to organizing protests through social networks, micro-blogging and text messaging. Young people are avid users of wireless technologies and a growing amount of research is devoted particularly to the phenomenal use of mobile phones among young people. Unfortunately, most of this research focuses on young people in industrialized countries, and on how mobile phones are used as tools to communicate with friends and organize life. This sells short the full impact and potential that mobile phones have among the youth of the world.rnrnMuch like the Internet, mobile phones have the potential to help young people improve their education, access critically important information and distribute information globally about themselves and the work they are doing locally. This is especially true in developing countries, where mobile phones are now the primary form of telecommunication. Mobile phones are playing the same role fixed-line phone networks did in facilitating growth in Europe and North America in the 20th century and the potential that mobile phones have in supporting young people to create better lives for themselves, and the societies they live in, is enormous.
Objectives:
For TakingITGlobal to engage with a diverse range of activist youth leaders from different socio-economic levels it must adapt to this new trend, as youth in developing countries are increasingly using mobile phones to access the internet. To determine how to best serve youth communities around the world, TakingITGlobal will conduct a Global Youth Mobile Survey in partnership with MobileActive.org to determine the myriad of ways that youth are already using their phones to create social change, as well as create recommendations as to how TakingITGlobal can expand more to reach out to mobile platforms. The Global Youth Mobile Survey will crowdsource grassroots innovation from youth around the world on how to synchronize our existing services with what is already happening on the field.rnThe Global Youth Mobile Survey will be designed and conducted online among randomly sampled members of our online community on TakingITGlobal.org. With nearly 200,000 youth members from more than 200 countries, TakingITGlobal.org is the most popular online community for youth working to make a difference in the world. This makes it the ideal platform for conducting research about the use of wireless technologies by youth community leaders.
Needs:
Mobile Developers!!
Contact Name: Lisa Campbell Salazar
Contact Email Address: lisa@mobilerevolutions.org
Tags:
mobile, phones, youth, working, group, takingitmobile, communications, technology, global, survey, environmental, scan, trends
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