Community Building and Renewal

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

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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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Aug 9: In Palestine, the mobile phone is the placement agency
Aug 9: Patricia Mechael: Millennium Villages, women and mobile gealth
Aug 8: The future of mobile applications and some other ideas
Aug 7: Information and Communication Technologies for the Poor
Aug 7: India can do better on mobile phone growth

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Aug 3: 3wan.net: Indonesia - Grameen phone
Aug 1: ICT Results - Saving lives with 10-kilo phone network
Aug 1: Betavine - Betavine
Jul 30: Aydin Design » Blog Archive » Throwing SMS into the learning mix, where/when/how/if it really fits?
Jul 29: allAfrica.com: Uganda: Mobiles in HIV Testing

Alô Cidadão!

file under:
Brazil, Communications Access and Infrastructure, Community Building and Renewal, Education and Academia, mobileactive07, sms information

operates in:
Brazil

contact:
http://www.okto.com.br/noticia.php?newsid=87

Alô Cidadão! (Hello Citizen! is a community SMS news program that brings information about jobs, educational and cultural events, and local news to low-income people in Belo Horizonte in southern Brazil. The messages have been overwhelmingly popular -- over 90% of subscribers forward the SMS to family or friends and rely on the text messages for daily information.

References / Past Projects

Read more and watch a video interview on the MobileActive blog.

mGovWorld

file under:
Access to All, Community Building and Renewal, Mobile Government, Mobile Public Services

operates in:

contact:

1490A, Sector B-1, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi , India - 110070

http://www.mgovworld.org

m-GovWorld is a multistakeholder initiative to enhance the reach of public services and enabling acccess to all. the website http://www.mgovworld.org is world's first observatory and knowledge portal on mobile government.

The organization is also running a Mobile Government Competence Center to help various government agencies implement mobile based solutions.

References / Past Projects

The Society for Promotion of e-Governance is a non profit mission mode organization working to accelerate e-Governance initiatives in developing countries. The complete details of the operations are available at http://www.egovindia.org