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In this PC World/IDG News Service column, Ken Banks examines how mobile phones and SMS-based tools — including his own FrontlineSMS text messaging hub, previously used to monitor elections in Nigeria and Pakistan — were being used by activists during Zimbabwe’s 2008 election crisis, and reflects on the wider tension between mobile technology’s empowering potential and its use as a tool of political activism against repressive regimes.
Region
Africa
Country
Zimbabwe
Category
Governance/political
Organisation / Author
Ken Banks