October 3, 2005
Greenpeace Uses SMS To Monitor Forest Destruction
In Argentina Greenpeace is providing indiginous people with mobile phones so that they can text for help when their lands are under attack from developers, according to Mike Grenville for 160characters.org. As well as sending help, Greenpeace also used SMS to call up protesters for an instant demonstration in Buenos Aires to urge the president to spare forests.
... "We use SMS with grassroots and indigenous communities soldiers when landowners are tying to evict people or use bulldozers to destroy the forest" said Oscar Soria, Communications Director, Greenpeace Argentina. "SMS is the most accessible method for indigenous people as they don't have landlines or access to electricity". "In some cases Greenpeace supplies the phones and car battery to charge the phones when there is no electricity in the village."
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