TacticalTech is doing some interesting work worth keeping an eye on. They are focused outside of the US but in the mobile space they should develop some and interesting produce to the groups here.
Katrin is also working on a new MobileActive memo focused on campaigns so I of course recommend watching there as well.
Link: NGO-in-a-box project - TTC: Mobile Advocacy Toolkit Working Meeting wiki.
The main objective of the NGO-in-a-box project is to put the tools of production and distribution, and the means of collaboration and mobilisation, in to the hands-of the non-profit community.
The way we do this is to help non-profits make choices about what tools and services they should use and supply them with the tools, how-to's, case studies and hands-on guides that will help them implement it.
As these toolkits are given away for free or at low-cost and need to be legally licensed we predominantly use Free and Open Source Software. Free and Open Source Software has the potential to be enormously useful to the non-profit community, however the fact remains that the world of Free and Open Source Software is often confusing and extremely overwhelming for non-technical people. Much of it is littered with badly documented or half completed projects. and finding the right tool to use can be a daunting task. This problem is heightened in developing countries where internet access can be extremely limited and unreliable. In such a situation just downloading the tools can be burdensome, to find they don't do the job you hoped or are poorly documented only compounds the problem.
