Back from my trip in Tanzania I have to show an interesting collection of images about marketing of mobile telephony around the country. As you can see they are pretty aggressive!
From cars to charts
From walls to houses
From billboards to shops
And they have clients of every age!
As previously reported the Ushahidi engine is being used to monitor the Indian elections. Here is the situation as of today.
I find very interesting having such a mix of content available on the site!
The Digital World Forum “Africa Perspective on the role of Mobile Technologies in fostering social and economic development” held in Maputo 1 – 2 April 2009 seemed to have produced numerous interventions in support of the idea of convergence between tools.
Have a look at this two interviews with Ken Banks of FrontlineSMS on “Using SMS [...]
A very useful summary of the International Telecommunications Union’s 2009 edition of Measuring the Information Society – The ICT Development Index (PDF, 1.53MB) has been published by Antonella Pastore on the blog of the ICT-Km Program.
A very interesting question comes out of the analysis: “is this the end of the Web as we know it?“
The [...]
kiwanja is releasing a new version of its famous software FrontLineSMS, the leading SMS management platform. Now the software allows users to manage forms to collect and share data:
You can read more on afromusing, an interesting blog on innovation, technology and beyond or on Ken’s blog.
The Forum on Mobile Telephony just ended. I think this has been a very interesting discussion, not only for the postings themselves, but mainly for the large number and value of people involved, experiences described and points of view reflected during two weeks.
To give an idea the complexity and the value of our last discussion [...]
To have a visual approach to mobile for development, I prepared a map on GoogleMaps to distribute geographically the projects I’ve been monitoring so far:
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It would be very nice if people knowing other projects would like to contribute to this mapping effort.
The summary of the discussions of Week I of the online forum on “Mobile Telephony in Rural Area” is ready to be downloaded.
With his article called “Rural communication: Is there still a need for telecentres now that there are mobile phones?” Ion Howard of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) affords a very interesting topic.
The problem is real: will mobile phones replace other ICTs wherever they are not yet developed? In my opinion, they are a killer [...]
The Forum is up and running.
People from more than 40 different countries already introduced themselves and are ready to share experience, ideas and vision with us.
Join it at http://www.e-agriculture.org/regform.html
As the online Forum on “Mobile Telephony in rural areas” is getting closer, the list of projects using mobile is getting longer and longer. I have to thanks the participants to the KM4Dev list who have been proposing examples of application they were aware of. Let’s see what’s new around the table:
mDevelopment
Launched in the late [...]
This is an open invitation to take part to the online forum on “Mobile Telephony in rural areas” which will take place from the 17 to the 28 of November.
Mobile technology for development seems to be today an excellent solution in support of many development activities. As you remember, we introduced the topic [...]
The IAALD-AFITA-WCCA Conference in August 2008 in Japan highlighted the importance of mobile communication to bridge the digital divide. In the final declaration about “Theme 1″ of the conference – Mobile Telephony in Rural Areas – one of the panel prediction was:
“mobile phones will be used as workstations and effective Web2.0 platforms“
I totally agree with [...]
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