The potential of cell phones to combat AIDS: Interview with Zinhle Thabethe and Krista Dong, iTeach South Africa

Posted by KatrinVerclas on Oct 22, 2007

I had the great pleasure to meet Krista Dong and Zinhle Thabethe from iTeach who are at the frontlines of treating and preventing AIDS in South Africa, the epicenter of this global crisis. These amazing, committed and inspired women talk about their daily experience working with people with HIV and AIDS in Kawazulu Natal and how they think mobile phones could exponentially scale their work. As Krista says, "To deal with the scope of this problem, to even begin to make a dent, we need new ideas, crazy ideas. And everyone, everyone has a cell phone." Watch if you want to hear from frontline workers how mobile phones can revolutionize their social change work.

This interview was conducted at PopTech. The video was shot entirely on a Nokia N95 mobile phone, courtesy of PopTech and Nokia. Click on the video below or go here for a larger screen.

The transitivity of mobile empowerment

Katrin: I am inspired by the way you've facilitated the empowerment of these two women, by helping them get more of their story out to a broader audience ... using mobile technologies to empower people, after you presented some of the [other] ways mobile technologies are empowering people during our session at Pop!Tech. Thanks for sharing!

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