I am a researcher interested in the links between mobile phones and digital inclusion: both in my own backyard and globally.

I’ve just completed a Masters in Technology Strategy Research at the Open University with an ethnographic study of mobile phone use by unemployed young people in South London and hope to start a PhD in 2011.

I’ve been developing my professional and academic expertise in the field of the social application of mobile phones since 2005.I worked  with the NGO Fahamu on some of the earliest uses of mobile phones for activism in Africa, with the Tactical Technology Collective to create a toolkit for mobile activists.

I  co-authored a book chapter on mobile activism in Africa and delivered papers on mobile technologies at the following conferences:

• Participatory Technologies Symposium 2010 (Open University)

• e-Democracy 2008 (RIBA, London)

• Emerging Telephony Conference 2007 (San Francisco)

• Dust or Magic Conference 2004 (Oxford University)

Previously a Trustee of the Sussex Community Internet Project and  on the selection committee for the Young Foundation’s first Social Innovation Camp.

You can contact me on beckyfaith at mac dot com or follow my sporadic tweets @becky_faith