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Asia Foundation At Google’s Big Tent On Open Data, Disasters

Michelle Chang Rodriguez | The Asia Foundation | June 27, 2013

On July 2 in Sendai, Japan, nearly a year and a half after the tragic earthquake and tsunami devastated the region, The Asia Foundation will participate in a Google conference to examine using open data in disaster relief. [...] Read More »

Beyond Apps: These Startups Are Tackling Real-World Problems

Nick Statt | CNET | August 21, 2013

Startup incubator Y Combinator demos a refreshingly high volume of companies tackling real issues, from hearing loss and elderly care to immigrant hiring and sending money home. Read More »

Could Mobile Health Become Addictive?

Joseph C. Kvedar | Healthcare IT News | August 21, 2013

The hype over mobile health is deafening on most days and downright annoying on some.  So it is with some reluctance that I admit that mobile has the potential to be a game-changer in health.  I’ve professed enthusiasm before, but that was largely around the use of wireless sensors to measure physiologic signals and SMS text as a way to deliver messages to patients and consumers... Read More »

Experimental Network Connects Zambia’s Most Remote

Staff Writer | IT News Africa | July 17, 2013

Range Networks, a leading U.S.provider of commercial open-source cellular systems, announced this week that it had successfully deployed an experimental cellular network in Southern Zambia. Read More »

FIRST Response Radio – Life Saving Information In Disaster

Mike Adams | FrontlineSMS | June 19, 2013

In times of disaster radio not only saves lives, it can also bring hope and critical information to the affected community. [...] In times like these, people are in desperate need of news and information on how to get to safety and how to survive. However, the unfortunate trend seen recently is that when radio is so important, many times it goes off the air and does not come back until well after the emergency is over. Read More »

How To Connect Community Radio Stations In Indonesia

Trevor Knoblich and Harry Surjadi | PBS.org | October 8, 2013

Worldwide, media outlets are increasingly mastering two-way communications channels. Radio and television stations are equipped to receive text messages, phone calls, and social media inputs. Staff can then decide to respond over broadcast, or back through the incoming channel. Yet these communications are often restricted to a single node [...]. Read More »

If Your Mobile Strategy Can Win Here, It Can Win Anywhere

Morra Aarons-Mele | Harvard Business Review | June 14, 2013

[...] Ideally, a brand and a woman of influence interact directly, one to one. But there's something that's increasingly coloring our relationship. It's her phone. The phone is more than our hardware. It's our lifeline. Read More »

In Kenyan Slum, Mobile Phones Pinpoint Better Water

Sarina A. Beges | FSI Stanford News | October 26, 2012

Single-room shacks with mud walls, metal roofs and dirt floors sleep families of eight here. Plastic bags filled with human waste are thrown into unpaved streets [...].Trash piles up in front of homes and storefronts. The flies are everywhere. People struggle to survive but the appetite for change is strong. Read More »

Introducing FrontlineCloud Beta!

Laura Walker Hudson | FrontlineSMS | August 22, 2013

Today, we’re proud to introduce FrontlineCloud: the next generation of FrontlineSMS, the world’s most popular professional text message management platform. Read More »

Ken Banks Receives ACM Award for FrontlineSMS Work

Press Release | Association for Computing Machinery | May 10, 2017

Ken Banks, recipient of the Eugene L. Lawier Award for developing Frontline SMS, using mobile technology and text messaging to empower people to share information, organize aid, and reconnect communities during crises. A self-descrived "moble anthropologist," Banks has a gift for building technology that benefits humanity. As someone who was writing code and tinkering with computers since he was 13, Banks instinctively saw an opportunity to harness the world's most-used communications platform--mobile messaging--to help people in the developing world. In 2005, he designed, coded and launched FrontlineSMS, a mobile messaging platform that allows people to subscribe to groups, receive alerts, and establish communication hubs.

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Kicking Conflict Into Touch: How Sport And Technology Unite Community And Conservation In Kenya

Njenga Kahiro | National Geographic | August 15, 2013

Football has long been recognised as a unifying sport, with the ability to bring sides together in some of the most trying of circumstances. In this installment of Digital Diversity, Njenga Kahiro shares his very personal experience of how a combination of football and text messaging have successfully brought together warring communities to promote conservation in Kenya. Read More »

Mobile Learning: How Smartphones Help Illiterate Farmers In Rural India

Hendrik Knoche | National Geographic | June 5, 2013

Small farmers are some of the most important people in the world – as Hendrik Knoche explains in today’s ‘Digital Diversity’, they provide over half of the world’s food supply. Helping such farmers improve their methods through innovative and efficient agriculture has long been an aim of development projects [...]. Read More »

Rapid Prototyping And Tech Stewards: Reflections On Recent Field Work

Gordon Gow | FrontlineCloud | October 1, 2013

Having made some excellent contacts during our recent meetings and workshops in Sri Lanka, the project team now needs to consider how those will translate into pilot projects using low cost ICTs. Read More »

Reach For Your Pocket: Nicaraguans Turn To Their Phones For Reproductive Health

Chloe Lew | National Geographic | June 19, 2013

Access to the Internet is something often taken for granted in the Western world. For many of us it’s a handy way to share our thoughts and lives over social media [...]. For many people in the developing world the Internet promises much more, if only they had access to it. Read More »

Reducing Hospital Readmissions Using Data Science And A Social Twist

Michael Gold and Lise Worthen-Chaudhari | O'Reilly Strata | August 15, 2013

Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center uses patient's social setting to improve adherence Read More »