Mobile
What is the Business Model of FrontlineSMS: Medic? Interview with Co-Founder, Josh Nesbit
Josh Nesbit explains the business model that supports FrontlineSMS: Medic, the mobile phone platform providing health info in developing countries via SMS.
Boyd Cohen, Co-Founder of 3rdWhale, On Green Living & iPhones
How can mobile smartphones like Google’s Android or Apple’s iPhone promote sustainable and healthy living? Boyd Cohen, Co-Founder of 3rdWhaleMobile, met up with us this past week at Social Capital Markets (SOCAP09) to tell us about his company and show us the mobile apps his team has been developing for Greenpeace and other leading green [...]
Interview with Alison Bloch, m-Health Advisor at GSMA | How Mobile Phones Help Improve Health
How is mobile being used in emerging markets to improve the lives of people living on less than $2/day? In what innovative ways are health providers using mobile phones to diagnose diseases like malaria, HIV, & TB? What is m-Health Alliance and how are UN Foundation, Vodafone Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation working together to develop [...]
Interview with Jennifer Sly of YouthAssets: How Mobile Airtime Is Used As Currency in Swaziland, Africa
Earlier this month we had the good fortune to travel with Jennifer Sly, founder of YouthAssets, an international nonprofit organization that empowers orphans and “youth head of households” in southern Africa. Enroute to a homestead of one of YouthAssets’ “youth advisors”, Jennifer explained the important role that mobile phones play to make connecting with rural [...]
Episode 4: Gcina Dube of YouthAssets on Mobile Phones, Facebook, & MXIT in Swaziland, Africa
Swaziland, Africa, July 2009: During a quick break in between sessions at BarCampSwaziland, Gcina of YouthAssets explains that mobile phones are more widely used in Swaziland, Africa than computers, as a source of information and connecting with friends. Gcina also tells us about MXIT, the dominant mobile social networking platform in southern africa, with over [...]
Interview with Jennifer Sly of YouthAssets: On Google G1 Phone & Google Maps in Swaziland, Africa
Swaziland, Africa We had the good fortune to join Jennifer Sly, Founder of YouthAssets, in Swaziland, Africa last week as she traveled to various youth homesteads. Along the way, Jennifer told us about how she used Google’s G1 phone and Google GPS Maps to find the remote homestead of a 12 year old boy she [...]
