I'm looking at some links/info on this topic b/c a friend is involved with an organization called the Flip Flop Foundation, and is interested in if/how they can use cell phones in Zambia as part of their mission:
http://www.flipflopfoundation.com/
I remembered seeing this article in the NYT earlier this year, about how a Reuters employee named saw an application for mobile phones and text msg'ing in providing market data to rural farmers in India; Reuters is currently testing the program, called "Reuters Market Light":
A Google search led to a number of news piece about how text msgs are being used in S Africa in a public health context. This 2003 BBC piece describes how individuals who suffer from TB and/or HIV are reminded to take their medication:
A related initiative in S Africa is using the extra space left in "PCM" ("Please call me") text msg's to ask people to get tested and treated for HIV; both these articles from the past few months describe this "Project M" (M is Masiluleke, which apparently means "wise council" in Zulu):
Here is the link to the Project M's homepage:
http://www.poptech.org/project_m_the_challenge/
Google also led me to this interview with a guy named Ken Banks, who has been working on applying mobile technologies to development--in particular in Africa--for a number of years:
That page in turn led me to the website for Kiwanja.net, which Banks founded:
http://www.kiwanja.net
Finally, to bring this back around, both Banks and the Reuters employee who developed Reuters Market Light did so through the Reuters Digital Vision Program at Stanford:
http://www.rdvp.org/
http://rdvp.org/archives/2006/08/18/mans-olof-ors-05-and-project-market-light-in-timesonline/
http://rdvp.org/fellows/2006-2007/ken-banks/
http://www.flipflopfoundation.com/
I remembered seeing this article in the NYT earlier this year, about how a Reuters employee named saw an application for mobile phones and text msg'ing in providing market data to rural farmers in India; Reuters is currently testing the program, called "Reuters Market Light":
A Google search led to a number of news piece about how text msgs are being used in S Africa in a public health context. This 2003 BBC piece describes how individuals who suffer from TB and/or HIV are reminded to take their medication:
A related initiative in S Africa is using the extra space left in "PCM" ("Please call me") text msg's to ask people to get tested and treated for HIV; both these articles from the past few months describe this "Project M" (M is Masiluleke, which apparently means "wise council" in Zulu):
"Texts used to tackle South Africa HIV crisis"
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/12/01/hiv.text.messages/index.html
"The Transformative 120: Text Messages Prove a South African HIV Lifeline"
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009090.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/12/01/hiv.text.messages/index.html
"The Transformative 120: Text Messages Prove a South African HIV Lifeline"
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009090.html
Here is the link to the Project M's homepage:
http://www.poptech.org/project_m_the_challenge/
Google also led me to this interview with a guy named Ken Banks, who has been working on applying mobile technologies to development--in particular in Africa--for a number of years:
"Cell phones, text-messaging revolutionalize conservation approaches: An interview with IT conservation expert Ken Banks"
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0415-banks_interview.html
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0415-banks_interview.html
That page in turn led me to the website for Kiwanja.net, which Banks founded:
http://www.kiwanja.net
Finally, to bring this back around, both Banks and the Reuters employee who developed Reuters Market Light did so through the Reuters Digital Vision Program at Stanford:
http://www.rdvp.org/
http://rdvp.org/archives/2006/08/18/mans-olof-ors-05-and-project-market-light-in-timesonline/
http://rdvp.org/fellows/2006-2007/ken-banks/
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