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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.
 

From Favelas to Townships: Mobile Use in Low-Income Populations

July 15, 2008 | CorinneRamey
file under:
base of the pyramid, Brazil, developing countries, favelas, mobile use, poor, South Africa, townships, vodafone

Mobile phone use is booming. There are close to 3.5 billion mobile phones in use, and mobile penetration rates are increasing quickly, especially in developing countries. This rise of mobile phone use by low-income and so-called 'base-of-the-pyramid' users raises a number of questions. Are low-income people using mobile technology in different ways than their higher-income counterparts? How can mobile phones be desiged and used in ways that are useful to these populations? Two new studies--one of favelas in Brazil and the other of a low-income township in South Africa--seek to answer these questions.

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Global Survey on NGO Mobile Adoption of more than 25,000 NGOs

January 2, 2008 | KatrinVerclas
file under:
cell phone, civil society, mobile adoption, mobile usage, mobile use, mobileactive, ngos, survey

Happy New Year, MobileActives!

To ring in the New Year, MobileActive is conducting, with the UN Foundation and the Vodafone Group Foundation, a global survey of more than 25,000 civil society groups about how these organisations are using mobile phones in their work.

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Photo of the Day

April 17, 2006 | KatrinVerclas
file under:
buddhism, mobile use, mobileactive
What a wonderful photo, courtesy of sa_be who kindly made this shot available to republish here at MobileActive. Thank you, Sasha from Russia, and thank you to the anonymous monk.