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Untitled 8 Aug 2009 | 04:36 am
Please note this article originally appeared on www.mobileactive.org How Tostan is Using Mobiles: Literacy and Community Empowerment 08.06.09 | LeighJaschke The number of women in Tostan villages t...
UNICEF and partners showcase child and maternal health innovations 12 Jul 2009 | 04:49 am
GENEVA, Switzerland, 7 July 2009 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the 2009 Innovation Fair held at the UN Palais des Nations in Geneva yesterday. The fair is part of the High-Lev...
Poetic RapidSMS 8 Jul 2009 | 03:03 am
From Rowena Luk, who is working on the RapidSMS Senegal Tostan project: The following poem was received and broadcast (via RapidSMS) to one of our villages in rural Senegal earlier today. Note that ...
Next OMC Technical Meeting: July 1-2, MIT/Cambridge, USA 26 Jun 2009 | 02:33 pm
Please join us for the next Technical Meeting of the Open Mobile Consortium Working Group. It will be held July 1 and 2 at MIT, in Cambridge, MA/USA. The Technical Meeting will be focused on extending...
RapidSMS Malawi project wins 2008 “USAID Development 2.0 Challenge” 26 Jun 2009 | 02:23 pm
Erik Hersman (Ushahidi), Henrietta H. Fore (USAID Administrator), and Kirsten Bokenkamp (RapidSMS Malawi) Columbia University and UNICEF received first-prize in the U.S. Agency for International Deve...
2009 World Health Congress nominates RapidSMS Malawi as one of the leading “Extremely Affordable Health Innovations” 26 Jun 2009 | 02:15 pm
Muhammad Yunus and Sean Blaschke at the World Health Congress