The theme of the 16th World Mobile and Smartphone-Free Day 6, 7, 8 February 2016 is risk.  

While the arrival of mobile phones revolutionized the way we communicate as a society and significantly changed our working and personal relationships for better and for worse, the technological shift brought by smartphones has also brought certain risks to their users.

The 16^th event will have four major themes:

-         The large increase in crime statistics linked to violent theft of smartphones on public transport

-         Potential for loss of sensitive personal and banking data by a simple SMS hack

-         The sex-tape phenomenon - using smartphones for blackmail

-         The smartphone and social media: a tool to facilitate burglary?

Note that Phil Marso isn’t suggesting that we turn off our smartphones during the 3 day period of 6, 7, 8 February. This annual meeting is intended to provoke debate around this communication tool.

For teachers wishing to share this discussion with their pupils, thirty two questions linked to this public meeting can be found here:

http://mobilou.info/debat.htm

Phil Marso offers 6 Smartphone challenges without realize on a day ie 6, 7 or 8 February 2016. Objective: Whether it is autonomous without his Smartphone :

http://www.mobilou.info/6defis-sans-smartphone.htm

You tube :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HICU2Y9xx0

Two posters illustrating the 16th  can be downloaded from the official site Mobilou.info:

http://mobilou.info/affiche000.htm

Phil Marso is a novelist and founder of the World Mobile and Smartphone-Free Days in 2001. Each year he announces this intiative to provoke discussion in schools, in particular. In 1999 he published a satirical novel “Tueur de portable sans mobile apparent” (Editions Megacom-ik)

We invite the media to take advantage of these three days to promote this theme: the risks associated with smartphones.

Contact : 33 1 45 88 48 34 (Phil Marso no speeking english) - philmarso@gmail.com

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