globeandmail.com carry a report about how pro-Tibet activists in China combined cellphone and Internet to send their message to the world, in spite of Chinese censorship: Tech-savvy pro-Tibet protesters get message across:

By using the internet to circumvent Chinese censors, the Students for a Free Tibet -- including three Canadians -- sent live cellphone videos of them rappelling down the Great Wall of China and unfurling a banner that read "One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 2008" back to New York using the internet software Skype.

The video was almost instantly posted onto YouTube, and just like that, they had an immediate and global audience for their cause.

[Via : Mobile phones and new media in pro-Tibet protests | MobileActive.org.]

Watch the YouTube videos:

• Free Tibet Olympics Protest at Great Wall of China
• Great Wall Protest (Closer View)

The videos are poor quality, after all they came from a cellphone, but what's more important is that the activists sent a message and viewers watched it. Your organisation doesn't need thousands of dollars worth of video equipment to send a message: a cellphone that can take movies will do.

Have you explored YouTube yet? Could you use it for your organisation?

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