If you're new here, you may want to view the multimedia in the left sidebar, as well as subscribe to the RSS feed. Feel free to leave comments, take the survey and send us email. Thanks!

Here is an example of an organized community that has adapted technology and business to meet its concerns.

In Israel, ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities have used combined purchasing power to alter the pricing system and functions of “kosher” phones.

Their incentive for turning cell phones off during their Sabbath is paying 25 times the usual price for calls made on Saturdays. The upshot is that they pay 5 times less than the regular price during the rest of the week. They have also chosen to restrict kosher phones from sending text messages, taking pictures, and calling any of 10,000 restricted numbers.

See the New York Times, p 1, Fri, Nov 2, ‘07 for the full story.

This entry was posted on Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 at 4:31 pm by Clay and is filed under Civic Media, Related News. You can follow responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.