FrontlineSMS is award-winning free, open source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub. Once installed, the program enables users to send and receive text messages with gro

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Tools for Integrating Mobile Phones in the Community Learning Programme Zahir Koradia, Gram Vaani Community Media, India Released October 2011 for the Commonwealth of Learning There are several technologies that can enab

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• Radio technology
• FrontlineSMS
• SMS
• Interactive voice response
• Ringtone
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• Medic Mobile
• Technology
• Electronic engineering
• Telephony

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• Ushahidi
• Ken Banks
• Multimedia Messaging Service
• SMS
• Text messaging
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• Software

Catching the mobile wave Ken Banks, IDG News It was August, 1993. I had just returned from a five-week trip to Zambia helping build teaching accommodation, a project which, at the time, was part of a wider Zambian govern

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• Year of birth missing
• Mobile phone
• Innovation
• Bottom of the pyramid
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• MHealth
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Communications for change: How to use text messaging as an effective behavior change campaigning tool Produced by FrontlineSMS and Text to Change

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• Short message service center
• MHealth
• Medic Mobile
• SMS spoofing
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Mobiles help put a stop to drug stock-outs Ken Banks, IDG News What I find particularly interesting about the mobile-for-development field is how a disproportionate amount of innovation occurs in the very places where re

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• Text messaging
• SMS
• MHealth
• Vodafone
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TEXT & VOICE Using Mobile Technologies for Community Learning

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• FrontlineSMS
• Gram Vaani Community Media
• Mobile phone
• SMS
• Community radio
• Medic Mobile
• Ken Banks
• Technology
• Mobile technology
• Electronic engineering

“Cometh the hour, cometh the technology” Ken Banks, IDG News For NGOs (non-governmental organisations) and developers alike, the ICT4D space can be a tough nut to crack. While NGOs generally struggle to find the tool

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• FrontlineSMS
• Development
• Ushahidi
• Information and communication technologies for development
• Ken Banks
• KIVA
• Non-governmental organization
• Medic Mobile
• Software
• Technology
• Computing

Witnessing the human face of mobile in Malawi Ken Banks, IDG News and Josh Nesbit It may not seem like much to you and me – indeed, it’s unlikely to make a lot of sense – but for the person that sent it, and more i

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• Medic Mobile
• Ken Banks
• Electronics
• Community health worker
• Mobile phone
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• FrontlineSMS
• Electronic engineering

Leveraging Africa’s mobile infrastructure Ken Banks, IDG News Service For most of us, not knowing what the weather is going to do might at worst result in a spoilt barbeque or a washed-out cricket or football match. Fo

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• Development
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• Ken Banks
• Year of birth missing
• FrontlineSMS
• Global Humanitarian Forum
• Mobile
• Alabama
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