Fish Texting and the Great Green Wave

The Huffington Post has an interesting article on how text messaging may become the companion service that will make (green and social change) net-based social networks really action-oriented:

"Take fish texting. Blue Ocean Institute has established what it calls Fish Phone in which you send the Institute a text message about a fish you are thinking of eating or buying, and the Institute replies with a green light message or some sustainable alternatives.

... The adaptation of texting to help make social groups make greener choices is hopefully just in its infancy. Open Green Maps, for example, is in the process of designing interactive online maps that would use texting to let users share information about sustainable services and events in their town, while Goose Networks lets users deploy texts to link together prospective ride shares.

And kiwanja.net is working on ways to use texting in developing nations for one-to-many communications on environmental and social change issues.

emily | 9:54 PM | Mobile phone projects - Third World |
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