%0 Book Section %1 mobmaps09 %A Gens, Luís %A Paredes, Hugo %A Martins, Paulo %A Fonseca, Benjamim %A Mor, Yishay %A Morgado, Leonel %B CRIWG 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 5784 %D 2009 %E Carriço, L. %E Baloian, N. %E Fonseca, B. %K Mobile activism collaboration georeference geotagging haifa-edtech mlearning mobmaps my myown polonsky social %T MobMaps: Towards a Shared Environment for Collaborative Social Activism %X Nowadays it is possible to disseminate information to the all world in real time using current communication tools supported mostly by the Internet. The work of several organizations reporting a multitude of problems that our society faces can be sustained by participatory platforms, which stimulate the collaboration of participants all over the world. In this paper we present a technological platform that provides a shared environment for collaborative social activism. We adapted the platform to a particular organization, MachsomWatch that reports human rights abuses in Israelis checkpoints. Finally we present some preliminary results obtained by ethnographic research using the developed platform.

@incollection{mobmaps09, abstract = {Nowadays it is possible to disseminate information to the all world in real time using current communication tools supported mostly by the Internet. The work of several organizations reporting a multitude of problems that our society faces can be sustained by participatory platforms, which stimulate the collaboration of participants all over the world. In this paper we present a technological platform that provides a shared environment for collaborative social activism. We adapted the platform to a particular organization, MachsomWatch that reports human rights abuses in Israelis checkpoints. Finally we present some preliminary results obtained by ethnographic research using the developed platform.}, added-at = {2011-02-04T12:20:55.000+0100}, author = {Gens, Luís and Paredes, Hugo and Martins, Paulo and Fonseca, Benjamim and Mor, Yishay and Morgado, Leonel}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2cae60e254a94675c4964093ca988a160/yish}, booktitle = {CRIWG 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 5784}, editor = {Carriço, L. and Baloian, N. and Fonseca, B.}, interhash = {fe0542447590f87c5dc5683b925e1a8d}, intrahash = {cae60e254a94675c4964093ca988a160}, keywords = {Mobile activism collaboration georeference geotagging haifa-edtech mlearning mobmaps my myown polonsky social}, timestamp = {2011-02-04T12:20:55.000+0100}, title = {MobMaps: Towards a Shared Environment for Collaborative Social Activism}, year = 2009 }