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<< Previous | Next >> June 29, 2009Grameen Foundation and Google create mobile apps for Africa
Real time information about farming, health and trading will be available to mobile phone users in Uganda with new technology services developed by the Grameen Foundation, Google and telecom operator MTN, writes The Seattle Times.
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June 24, 2009Disaster-prone Bangladesh trials cell phone alerts
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June 19, 2009Mobiles boost Africa climate data
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June 15, 2009Nokia to Offer Life Tools for Rural Mobile Users
Nokia plans to roll out its Life Tools group of services to more emerging markets following a successful pilot program in India, a company executive said Monday. Yahoo Tech.
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June 10, 2009Juniper Research: Cheap Phones Are Big Business
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May 11, 2009The Cellphone has been crucial in binding India together
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April 19, 2009Treating crop diseases via mobile phoneMobile phones are being used to diagnose and treat crop diseases that cause massive losses to farmers. The East African reports.
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April 18, 2009Kerala farmers adopt SMS service to know rubber prices
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March 30, 2009Free text messages save lives in Malawi
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February 22, 2009Help for poor to access banking
Related: - Bill Gates grant to extend mobile banking to poor emily | 11:14 AM | permalink
Mobile Phones to Serve as Doctors in Developing Countries
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February 17, 2009Bill Gates grant to extend mobile banking to poorMicrosoft founder Bill Gates has agreed to help fund a massive rollout of projects enabling poor mobile phone users to transfer money using their handsets, an industry body announced Tuesday. From Yahoo Tech.
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'Mobile health' campaign launched
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February 16, 2009Harnessing Personal Movement for Power in Rural Africa
Dr. Cedrick Ngalande has announced a new project called Green Erg, which harnesses (literally) a person’s movement energy to create electricity. Designed to work perfectly on all types of road, ground or floor conditons. Will generate power when attached to a person walking or to a moving skating board, bike, ox-cart, farm animal... "At normal walking speeds we have gotten more than 2 watts which is more than enough for running cell phones or radios." [via Afrigadget] emily | 8:08 PM | permalink
February 12, 2009SMS scheme taps work force in developing countries
A new scheme that distributes simple tasks via text messages is being used to target a potential untapped work force in developing countries. The BBC reports.
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February 5, 2009Cell phones to fight India rebels
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February 2, 2009A Ugandan Housewife’s Homemade Mobile Phone Charger
Mrs. Muyonjo is a housewife in a remote village of Ivukula in Iganga district, Eastern Uganda. She had a bad experience with a local mobile phone charger, so decided to hack her own solution in response. Read the full story on the Women of Uganda Network’s site.
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January 27, 2009Cellphone application for farmers among finalists from India
A cellphone application which allows farmers in Maharashtra to remotely access their irrigation pumps has earned Pune-based Ossian Agro Automation a place in the finals of the Forum Nokia’s Calling All Innovators Contest to be held in Barcelona, Spain, on 17 February. livemint.com reports.
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January 14, 2009MALAWI: SMS to fight malnutrition
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December 15, 2008Nokia To Launch 'Live Tools' For Farmers, Students In IndiaAccording to TopNews.in, Nokia plans to roll out subscription-based mobile phone services ‘live tools’ for the farming and student community in India.
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December 2, 2008Help Support AfriGadget’s Young Mobile ReportersThe Grassroots Reporting Project puts smarter mobile phones into the hands of young Africans and has them report on So far the right people have been identified for the project, but A combination of mobile phones and computers will be assigned to individuals in 10 African countries for the purpose of getting more on-the-ground reporting of stories of African ingenuity to the world. An AfriGadget editor will be in charge of identifying the best candidates for inclusion in the program. This editor will also travel to each country to train and equip the new AfriGadget reporters for the program. emily | 9:21 AM | permalink
October 24, 2008Texts tackle HIV in South Africa
Related: -- Cell phones mobilized to fight AIDS in Africa -- RU OK? South Africans tackle AIDS with texts emily | 1:52 PM | permalink
October 2, 2008AFRICA: Communication technologies transform elections
A special report from the IHT. Rigging. Innovative non-governmental organizations including the National Democratic Institute in the United States have pioneered the use of mobile phones in the process of election monitoring. The first recorded example of the exclusive use of a mass coordinated mobile phone network to monitor an election occurred in Montenegro in 2006. In recent years, a decentralized system of releasing election results first at the constituency level combined with the spread of mobile phones, has allowed opposition parties and monitors to construct their own version of the 'real' election results in Africa. Read full article. emily | 11:36 AM | permalink
September 16, 2008Fish Texting and the Great Green Wave
The Huffington Post has an interesting article on how text messaging may become the companion service that will make (green and social change) net-based social networks really action-oriented: "Take fish texting. Blue Ocean Institute has established what it calls Fish Phone in which you send the Institute a text message about a fish you are thinking of eating or buying, and the Institute replies with a green light message or some sustainable alternatives. emily | 9:54 PM | permalink
September 8, 2008Selling Potatoes By Phone In Remote Bangladesh
"Although 75% of Bangladesh's population has no access to electricity and Internet penetration is only 0.03%, CellBazaar has more than one million users. A quarter of them use the service on a regular basis, with about 550 new items posted each day. Almost all of that is by mobile phone, though CellBazaar also offers an online platform. But what Mr. Quadir, 36 years old, finds gratifying are the stories behind the numbers -- such as a post from a farmer in a remote area of Bangladesh offering to sell a bag of potatoes." Image from Fresh Plaza emily | 8:47 AM | permalink
September 4, 2008Cellphone Tales From Around the World
He saw parking meters that talk to phones in New Zealand, teenage text-messaging monks in a Himalayan monastery and cellphone charging stations along the Ganges River in India, right next to a raging funeral pyre. ... Roeding's take on his circumnavigation: "I have known how important mobile is for some time now, but I've got to tell you, I was personally surprised and sometimes shocked at how far the use of mobile goes," he said. "It actually surprised me that mobile is reaching to the very edges of the world." Full story in The Washington Post. emily | 9:14 AM | permalink
August 27, 2008Telecoms: One man's vision proves a lifeline in conflict zones and disasters
Satellite phone missions keep thousands in touch with the outside world. An interesting article by The Guardian on Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF. "Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF), the brainchild of Jean-François Cazenave, has provided a vital link for aid agencies and a lifeline to friends and relatives from Iraq, Niger, Sri Lanka and Nicaragua and more recently, Tbilisi, the Georgian capital. "In every disaster relief situation we saw the same thing, the need for victims to be able to communicate. And all the non-governmental organisations (NGOs) also need telecommunications", Cazenave explains. So he went back to his local council with a proposal and the mayor bought Cazenave his first satellite phone. ince it's first mission in Albania in 1998, TSF has been out on more than 70 missions to 50-odd countries." Picture above, a communication services set up in one of the 37 locations in Niger ravaged by famine. emily | 7:54 AM | permalink
June 22, 2008Restricted mobility in an African Village
Ken Banks on kiwanja.net explains how a cell phone operator in a remote African village where competition is tough, offers his customers some privacy, by allowing them to try out a cell phone, tethered to a long wire. Clever. Making a phone call on a Village Phone can hardly be called a private affair. First of all you're likely standing out in the open, the phone owner usually hangs around a couple of feet away, and children crowd around because that's what children do. In an attempt to break the mould - and gain a little competitive advantage... emily | 5:52 PM | permalink
May 14, 2008New fuels will expand phone cover
"Many people have little or no mobile coverage because base stations, which provide the signal that the phones use, are prohibitively expensive to run - mostly because of the fuel costs. But the GSM Association - the trade body for the mobile phone industry - says solar power and biofuels could be used to power new base stations and so network up more of the world. "... When you look at the cost of putting a new base station in to cover a group of villages, you're looking not only at the cost but of the road, of the electricity, and so on," Tom Phillips from the GSM Association said. "The costs can multiply many times." Mr Phillips added that he was hopeful that the development of more base stations using alternative fuel sources would provide a source of income for the communities "as they manage the production of those fuels and secure the base station at the same time." emily | 12:42 PM | permalink
May 11, 2008Burma's emergency telecoms delay
"Like many charity groups, the Telecoms Sans Frontières (TSF) organisation has so far been denied entry visas by the military-run government. A TSF team has been waiting in Bangkok, Thailand, with its equipment all week. If visas are eventually granted, the team will go in to set up phone and other network links. These will be used by many aid groups to co-ordinate the huge relief effort that is needed. Locals will also be offered "welfare calls", to make contact with friends and family who will have been worried about their safety. The UN fears more than 1.5 million people have been affected by Cyclone Nargis which struck on Saturday. emily | 9:48 AM | permalink
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