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Wireless Technology for Social Change
Read the new report on trends in mobile use by NGOs:
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The report was commissioned by the UN Foundation/Vodafone Group Foundation Partnership and written by Katrin Verclas and Sheila Kinkade.
 

Deadline Extension for Mobile App Developer Challenge for Android

January 30, 2008 | KatrinVerclas
file under:
android, google, humanitarian mobile, mobile apps, mobile for good

We have written previously about the Android Developer Challenge by Google that has a strong emphasis on humanitarian applaications. Because (we think) the process and SDK was rather buggy, Google has decided to move the submission deadline for the first Android Developers Challenge to 14 April 2008.

From the Android blog:

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MobileActive App Developers: Google Android Developer Challenge Submission Form Now Available

January 8, 2008 | KatrinVerclas
file under:
android, google, mobile for good, social mobile

The submission form for the first Android Developer Challenge is now available. As you recall, Android is the new Google mobile platform. The developer challenge will provide $10 million in total in awards -- no strings attached -- for great mobile apps built on the Android platform.

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Mobile innovators for social change, Nokia to convene for MobileActive07

November 14, 2007 | KatrinVerclas
file under:
android, google, mobileactive, mobileactive07

NGO practitioners from around the world will convene November 24 and 25 in Sao Paulo, Brazil for MobileActive07 at Mobilefest, the global gathering of mobile innovators who are making the world a better place. Nokia representatives from its Brazlian research lab INdT will present and participate in trainings and skillshares as part of MobileActive07.

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Google Announces Android, Jumpstarting Potential Social Mobile Apps and Cheaper Handsets

November 5, 2007 | KatrinVerclas
file under:
google, mobile applications, mobile for good, mobileactive, social mobile

Google announced today Android and of the Open Handset Alliance, throwing wide open the field of mobile applications for commercial and social and civic causes and potentially much cheaper handsets that are especially important in developing countries. We here at MobileActive.org think that this will spur developments for the social sector that are faster and cheaper -- an "Android for Good."

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