Dan's Blog (2.0) » MobileActive http://www.torgo.com/blog Musings on technology, the Web, mobility and beyond Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:39:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Mobile Tech 4 Social Change London! http://www.torgo.com/blog/2009/05/mobile-tech-4-social-change-london.html http://www.torgo.com/blog/2009/05/mobile-tech-4-social-change-london.html#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 10:55:30 +0000 Daniel Appelquist http://www.torgo.com/blog/?p=339 On U.S. election day last year, November 4th, I co-organized with Katrin Verclas of MobileActive a Barcamp style event we called “Mobile Tech 4 Social Change” focusing on the increasing role mobile technology is having in social activism, grass-roots organization, social development, and in the developing world. It’s possible we started a movement because MobileActive has gone on to run two more camps since then, in New York and Washington DC. Now Mobile Tech 4 Social Change is coming to London. I’ll be hosting this event on May 23rd in at Vodafone’s offices in London. For all the details and to register, go to MobileActive.org’s page on the event. If you’re interesting in helping to build a bridge between the mobile industry and the social activism / social development space then I encourage you to attend!

]]> http://www.torgo.com/blog/2009/05/mobile-tech-4-social-change-london.html/feed 1 Mobile 2.0 and Mobile Tech for Social Change http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/10/mobile20-mtfsc.html http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/10/mobile20-mtfsc.html#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:08:40 +0000 Daniel Appelquist http://www.torgo.com/blog/?p=298 First of all, for the third year in a row, I’m running (along with Mike Rowehl, Gregory Gorman, Rudy de Waele and Peter Vesterbacka) Mobile 2.0, a “one-day event focusing on new Mobile Applications and Services, the Mobile Web and Disruptive Mobile Innovation.”

The event will be held on November 3rd and will once again be taking place at the Grand Hyatt off of San Francisco’s Union Square.

This year we have some really fantastic speakers and panelists and we’re also trying something slightly different: running a “builder track” in the afternoon, along-side our regular track, that will focus on hands-on mobile development, user experience and design. That track will feature mini-tutorial sessions on topics such as Gears Mobile, Nokia Web Runtime, Yahoo! blueprint, iPhone web development and mobile user experience and design topics (with a focus on case studies). This is all in line with my view that when it comes to mobile innovation, it is time to stop talking about it and start doing it.

Registration is now open, so reserve your seat today by visiting http://mobile2event.com. Full program will also be posted soon.

On the next day, November 4th, against the back-drop of the U.S. election, I’ll be helping to run a bar-camp type event focusing on how mobile technology is being used as a lever of social change. This is a topic that I’ve been working at the fringes of for some time. I’m very privileged to be working with the folks at MobileActive.org (who will be fresh from running their own event in South Africa). If you’re interesting in helping out with this event or participating, get in touch with me here and add your name to the event wiki.

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