This project of the Tactical Tech is a collection of tools, tactics, how-to guides, and case studies designed to help advocacy and activist organisations use mobile technology in their work. It is available in English and French.

Mobiles in-a-box provides tools and tactics to use mobile phones for:

1. Outreach and participation: Helping people participate in civil society by providing short message service (SMS) platforms so they can engage with decision-makers.
2. Fundraising and resource mobilisation: Using mobile phones to raise money for rights advocacy work through SMS campaigns and the use of mobile payments.
3. People's media: Using the multimedia capacity of mobiles to create content and to post content online.
4. Coordinating and mobilising: Using mobile phones to organise meetings, to put out calls to action and to communicate in emergencies and during events.

All of Tactical Tech's toolkits and guides are developed using a participatory peer review methodology. Mobiles in-a-box was initially developed with more than 50 rights advocates and technologists. It has been tested thoroughly by six human rights organisations in Africa to ensure its relevance to rights advocates working in this region.

Tactical Tech use Creative Commons licenses and encourage rights advocates to translate and re-mix their toolkits and guides. Tactical Tech is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) that supports human rights advocates to use information, communications, and digital technologies to maximise the impact of their advocacy work.

The development of Mobiles in-a-box supported by Hivos and the Open Society Institute.

Click here to access a web-based contact form for Mobiles In-a-Box (hard copies in English only).

Women of Uganda (WOUGNET) website accessed on May 5 2009; and email from Tanya Notley to The Communication Initiative on September 4 2009 and October 9 2009.