IAP: "Call for Action! Mobile Technologies for Activism"

http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-8959.html

Chris Csikszentmihályi, Co-Director of the Center for Future Civic Media, and Nadav Aharony, Research Assistant at the MIT Media Lab, will run an Independent Activities Period class open to members of the MIT community.

Call for Action! Mobile Technologies for Activism
Christopher P. Csikszentmihályi, Nadav Aharony
Tue Jan 20 thru Fri Jan 23, 10am-06:00pm, E15-020

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 15-Dec-2008
Limited to 30 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: None

Call for Action (CfA) is a 4 day intensive seminar on mobile phones and activism. How can mobile networked devices be used for social change, politics, and expression? Can phones help to organize people, gather information, and enable collective action to stop global warming? organize labor? end a war?

Each day we'll review existing tools for social change, cover techniques for mobile hacking, and piece together new experiments. International speakers ranging from community activists to UNICEF will discuss the problems with existing ICTs, and suggest parameters for new systems. We'll review protocols like VOIP, SMS, and Asterisk to look at how they may be reused or reconfigured.

Web: http://www.media.mit.edu/~csik/cfa
Contact: Csikszentmihályi, e15-020a, csik@media.mit.edu
Sponsor: Media Arts & Sciences