Teenage Mobile Heroes

Julia Shalet continues to do fascinating work with young people and mobile phones.  Helen Keegan, of Beep Marketing, is another name to add to the list of people doing exceptional things in mobile.

On Monday Julia takes a new teen panels to the stage at Heroes of the Mobile Screen conference at the BFI Southbank in London. Heroes of the Mobile Screen will also be distributing passes for Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona for up to 100 lucky delegates.

Heroes is a brainchild of Helen Keegan and a great way not just to spread the message about mobile movies but also to do good by people in disadvantaged areas of the world.

Heroes is asking delegates to donate old phones (with 2MP capacity or over) so they can be used by young, aspiring mobile movie makers trained by the World Film Collective.

Julia’s panel meanwhile will be asked to assess the merits (and live pitch) of five new mobile companies.

Animentals by Fluid Pixel Studios – A mobile cyber pet game: Fluid Pixel Ltd is a media development studio specialising in mobile devices.

Psonar – A cloud based music service: Psonar.com is a brand-new music website that offers secure and reliable storage for your entire digital music collection plus the ability to stream your own music from any location in the world.

Pay by mobile – The wallet on your mobile phone. A service that allows you to text to pay for stuff online.

Flook – A location browser on iPhone: from Ambient Industries, Flook is the world’s first location browser – a brand new iPhone app that lets you discover and share the world around you by simply swiping through a stream of nearby flook cards.

Live Talkback – audience participation in real time: a cutting edge solution to an age old problem… How can you engage your audience to feel part of an event… realtime…

Even if you’re just passing by, take one of those old phones along and drop it in at the BFI.

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Posted: December 4, 2009 at 2:10 pm

Last updated: February 15, 2010 at 4:57 pm

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