ITWorld has a report on the Open Mobile Consortium launch in May 2009. MobileActive.org a co-founder of the Consortium and is quoted in the article.
"The Open Mobile Consortium has launched a global development community to help organizations collaborate and share mobile technologies. The OMC's development community compromises several organizations that develop open-source software tools that help organizations better serve the health, humanitarian and development needs of the "bottom billion" of the world's population," says ITWorld.