Some thinking on the never ending discussion on “push” and “pull” technology, with particular implication for mobile phones.
I keep on reading commercials and articles about the importance, for professionals, of push access to email. I’ve always thought that time and concentration are key while working. Usually we don’t have time to do things [...]
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!
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.
WordPress released an application with which you can blog directly from your iPhone. You can download it form here.
I’ve been starting using it!
Can you imagine what does that mean in addition to another app which can record voices, the images you shot with the embedded camera and the video you can ultimately shot with the [...]
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 [...]
These days we are ending the Forum on Mobile Telephony in Rural Areas with the question: “What is your vision for the future? Here we are looking for suggestions for new services or improving existing services, and ideas for collaboration going forward?“
Some interesting ideas from Jan Chipchase at TED about the future of mobile. I’ll [...]
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 [...]
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