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.
Interview With Jennifer Sly, Founder of YouthAssets | On The Importance of Mobile & Google Maps in Swaziland, Africa
Jennifer Sly explains how she found the homestead of a young boy in Swaziland using Google Maps and her Google Gi phone.
MakeSense Co-Founders Interview Shabnam Aggarwal, Founder of Millee | Mobile Education For Rural Students in India
Christian Vanizette and Romain Raguin, co-founders of MakeSense, share their latest video interview with social innovator, Shabnam, in southeast Asia.
How To Recycle Your Phone & Help Save Lives: HopePhones.org [Video]
Do you have an old mobile phone sitting in a drawer that you are not using anymore? What do you do with it? In the spirit of Earth Day today, check out our interview above with Josh Nesbit, co-founder of HopePhones.org and FrontlineSMS: Medic. Learn how you can recycle your phone and help save lives [...]
How Mobile SMS Saves Lives in Africa | Josh Nesbit, Co-Founder of FrontlineSMS Medic
In this week’s interview, Josh Nesbit, Co-Founder of FrontlineSMS Medic, shares the behind-the-scenes story that inspired him to start FrontlineSMS Medic, an international organization that uses mobile technology to connect health workers in rural communities in developing countries. The service, now deployed in ten countries, saves community health workers’ time which allows them to treat [...]
How Social Media & Mobile Helps Haiti | Ushahidi, Samasource, CrowdFlower & FrontlineSMS
Update on May 10, 2010: “SMS shortcode 177 is now being used instead of shortcode 4636. #haititech” Bravo to the thousands of volunteers worldwide who are assisting with translating Creole mobile text messages to help people in Haiti following the devastating 7.0M earthquake that struck the nation on January 12. 2010. Many may not have [...]
How To Help Haiti via Mobile Phone, Volunteering, Music, & More
(Photo thanks to IFRC Flickr Creative Commons.) Across the world, our hearts are broken for Haiti. For a people who have suffered so much and lived on so little for generations, it’s incomprehensible to imagine the added devastation of the 7.0 earthquake that hit the country last week. Many blogs have provided excellent posts on [...]
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 [...]
Nyiwung Valery Colong, Tech Lead (AMIS): On Mobile Phones, SMS, & Farming in Cameroon, Africa
We met up with Nyiwung Valery Colong, Technology Lead for AMIS (Agricultural Marketing Information Services), in Silicon Valley, California in May 2009 at TechSoupGlobal’s N2Y4 Conference. AMIS is a project that uses SMS technology and mobile phones to deliver real-time information services to farmers in Cameroon, Africa. The project was a N2Y4 Mobile Challenge finalist, [...]
