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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.
 

SET - Sex-Ed Text

file under:
aids, Children and Youth, Family and Parenting, Health and Medicine, hiv, sex ed, sex education, sexual education, sms, sms campaign, sms infolines, sms information
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.



SexInfo

file under:
Family and Parenting, Health and Medicine, sex ed, sms information
operates in:
United States

contact:
http://www.sextextsf.org/

SexInfo provides teens with access to sexual education information via SMS.

 

References / Past Projects

According to the website, Sex Info is an:

  • Innovative response to the increasing gonorrhea and chlamydia rates among African-American young people, aged 18-25, in San Francisco.
  • Based on a successful program in London operated by the Brook Advisory Centres
  • Created to give info and advice to San Francisco youth about STDs, HIV, birth control, sexual health services, and more.
  • Designed by health educators at I.S.I.S., Inc. with funding from the San Francisco Department of Public Health, STD Prevention and Control, and programmed by Hip Cricket.