Iraqi Students Uploading ID Papers to Mobile Web Sites
Iraqi students are reported to have found a high-tech solution to prove their personal identity after several incidents where insurgents kidnapped students and confiscated passports and personal documentation issued by the new Iraqi government. In order to avoid misidentification and in order to issue new passports the students are using a mobile social network, Mobixie to upload photos of their passports and other personal records so that they will be able to retrieve these documents from their mobile phone at any time or at check points in case the documents are confiscated or lost.
A spokesman for the site said that Mobixie was designed for mobile users to upload, download and share user-generated content such as games, videos and ringtones, and they were surprised to see that the people in troubled areas are using it to safeguard and retrieve their personal documents from their mobile.
Posted to the site on 30th August 2007
