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MobileActive08

A Global Summit about
Mobile Technology for Social Impact
October 13-15, 2008
Johannesburg, South Africa

 
 
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.
 

Nigeria is Mobile: A Book Review

February 28, 2008 | CorinneRamey
file under:
book review, mobile banking, mobiles in development, Nigeria

The brightly-colored umbrellas of mobile phone vendors, selling top-up airtime and the use of mobile phones for calls, dot the landscape of urban and rural Nigeria. However, says a new book on mobile phones in Nigeria, cell phones haven't just visually changed the landscape of Africa's most populous country, but have transformed the country economically, socially, and democratically as well.

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Ask about Sex via Text: Teenagers 'Learn About Living' in Nigeria

February 2, 2008 | KatrinVerclas
file under:
aids, hiv, mobile sex education, Nigeria, One World
Can I get HIV after having sex for the first time? So goes one of the ten thousand SMS messages that teenagers in Nigeria have sent to Learning about Living.

 

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FrontlineSMS

file under:
Bulk SMS/Outgoing SMS Services, frontline sms, Nigeria, sms mobilization
operates in:
India, Nigeria, United Kingdom

contact:
http://frontlinesms.kiwanja.net/

FrontlineSMS is the first text messaging system to be conceived, designed and written firmly with the needs of the non-profit sector in mind. Until now, the majority of systems have not taken into account the nature of non-profit work, and the specific conditions (financial and physical) which many work under.

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References / Past Projects

FrontlineSMS was used to monitor elections in Nigeria. You can read about it here.



Human Rights and Justice Group International

file under:
advocate, aids, e-learning, education, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, ict, liberties, Nigeria, rights, technology, training
operates in:
Nigeria

contact:
53, Western Avenue, Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria

Human Rights & Justice Group Int'l (Justice Group) is an independent, non-governmental and not-for-profit voluntary initiative which was established in 1999 by Nigerians from different professional, cultural and social backgrounds to enhance knowledge, respect and observance of human rights, and to encourage exchange of information and experiences for the betterment of the citizenry through the instrumentality of law, education, enlightenment and humanitarianism.

Justice Group membership is drawn from a rich blend of activists and other professionals working together on a shared commitment to justice, the rule of law and human dignity. The idea of the group was to build awareness about those rights as well as investigate and advocate various means for securing their implementation.

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References / Past Projects

We use mobile phone effectively in our e-learning programme to inform participants of the latest development in our training programs. We equally use it in our in human rights violation reporting. The organisation has a hot-line mobile number which victims of human rights abuse use to notify the organisation of the plight as well as seeking assistance for legal aid. On weekly basis we receive up to 50 to 80 distress calls from members of the public for assistance.

Further, in our eLearning courses, we use mobile phones to inform participants of course dates, time for online discussion and for e-Mobile conferencing.

Mobile phone has served us greatly as a new emerging technology for this generation.



BBC Wap use flourishing in Africa

September 19, 2006 | Simon Pavitt
file under:
Nigeria, wap
The BBC has recently reported that of those who from outside the UK who use WAP to access it's news website, 61% come from Nigeria. Next comes South Africa (19%), Jamaica (7%) and Uganda (7%). "Wap is the one platform where African countries continue to appear in the top five in our statistics," said BBC developer Gareth Owen. It puts this down to the fact that Africa is the world's largest-growing mobile phone market with unreliable landlines encouraging the growth, although mobile phone providers in many African countries have only recently begun rolling out Wap-enabled handsets. According to the BBC's statistics, page views for Wap usage are growing at 100% year on year, with UK users accounting for 65% of traffic and international usage for 35%. The BBC website alone accounts for 20% of UK Wap use.

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