Background


 * MobilizeThis** has transversed some interesting physical and virtual domains / locations in the last three years, none more so than from it's humble beginings in the **[|Byron Bay Youth Centre in 2006] .**


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In 2007 amidst a storm of organisational mediation, a change in Australian Federal politics and a plethora of popular media explosions **MobilizeThis07 ** provided a free showcase of a wide range of current e-learning technologies, social networking software and web 2.0 applications, opinions and research. Presenters, debate participants in virtual locations and a range of topics exploded across the web from a variety of networks.


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 * [|MobilizeThis 2008]** concentrated on getting connected, exploring and resolving challenges facing organisations as they seek practical means to realising social dividends with clients, creatively engaging in real learning experiences that embrace the horizons and enable others to access what we would otherwise take for granted. As detailed in the wiki description, ".....The purpose of **MobilizeThis2008** is ( was ) to bring educators, e-learning technologists, managers, tech-heads and cross-sector organisation representatives together in a program that fosters conversations, workshops and online experiences to inform practical examples of employing ICT's in an open and global context."
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 * [|MobilizeThis09]** has pitched the tent close to the discussions of where the speed of learning has progressed and where the access to mobile related concepts of learning have imbedded themselves most in the educational context. The **[|MobilizeThis]** blog is an ongoing record of interaction with the wider national and interantional community and the Flickr images archive attests to the interaction across the Australian and other nations as the event unfolds.

MobilizeThis has become synonomous with investigations at a grass-roots level of all things mobile - technology, attitudes, understandings, lifestyles, organisational and individualisation, access, challenges and the politics of Telco development. Over the years there has been a shift from solely examining mobile as a youth related or associated technology to that of the wider community and to all people of all ages.

Quite simply put, MobilizeThis is a reflection point in the years busy schedule of academic hustle and bustle, a break in the hectic breakneck speed of consultations and workshops and also an opportunity to connect with wider groups of people in their achievements as they move across an ever complex array of roles and obligations to organisational servitude. This is an opportunity to connect with a wide conversation and to showcase quality examples of where learning at the speed of mobile has complemented the chronology of slow, deep thinking.