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Wireless Technology for Social Change

Read the new report on trends in mobile use by NGOs:

Wireless Technology for Social Change.

The report was commissioned by the UN Foundation/Vodafone Group Foundation Partnership and written by Katrin Verclas and Sheila Kinkade.

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SET - Sex-Ed Text

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operates in:
Philippines

contact:
http://www.freewebs.com/sexedtext/

SET (Sex-Ed Text) is the fast, easy, anonymous way to get answers to everything you wanted to know about sex, but never asked.

References / Past Projects

SET is sposored by Child Family Services Philippines with human resources help from Peace Corps Philippines.

Learning About Living

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aids, Children and Youth, Health and Medicine, hiv, sex ed, sms infolines

operates in:
Nigeria

contact:
http://www.learningaboutliving.com

From the MobileActive blog:

Learning About Living is a project by One World UK, Nigerian NGOs, the MTN Foundation, and the Nigerian Department of Education using computers and mobile phones to teach Nigerian teenagers about sexuality and HIV/AIDS prevention.

References / Past Projects

From LearningAboutLiving.com

Learning about Living, the electronic version of FLHE, is based on the Nigerian Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education (FLHE) curriculum. The program is managed by One World UK and is developed by Butterfly Works, in close collaboration with Action Health Incorporated, NERDC, Federal Ministry of Education, Federal Ministry of Health, Education as a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) and Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI); with input from young people, school teachers and youth workers in Nigeria.

FLHE Curriculum was developed by the NERDC as the National Agency for Curriculum development in the education sector in Nigeria in collaboration with the Universal Basic Education, Federal Ministry of Education and Action Health Incorporated.

Cellphones: The Mobile Frontier for NGOs

January 28, 2008 | KatrinVerclas

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We are occasionally commissioned to write introductory articles about the mobile revolution and implications for NGOs for various publications. Here is one broad overview of some areas where mobiles are deployed in civil society.

Cellphones have become the most ubiquitous communication device in the hands of human beings. There are an estimated 3.5 billion mobile phones in use and there is coverage in even remote corners of the world. Cellphones have revolutionized not just the way we work and organize within cultures and societies, but have the potential to change how NGOs (non-governmental organizatios) operate.