These mobile-organizing examples keep cropping up. Some friends at the Solidarity Center were just mentioning that Filipino labor organizers are using very similar techniques. It makes sense; folks have developed mobile technology for human rights purposes, and their strengths so far have been in blasts—pushing information out to activists, fielding reports of human rights violations, complete with location information.

LaborVoices will be an interesting complement to these approaches, since we’re focusing on using the same mobile technologies to build stable, searchable, accurate, and timely reputations of employers and labor recruiters. If today’s SMS organizing is like a chat room, then the LaborVoices system is more like a wiki. If we do it right, it might even be the Wikipedia of migrant labor, made by workers, for workers.

In China, a Labor Movement Aided by Modern Technology – NYTimes.com