IDG

Results: 519



#Item
251Development / Mobile telecommunications / Ken Banks / Year of birth missing / FrontlineSMS / Global Humanitarian Forum / Mobile /  Alabama / T-Mobile / Infrastructure / Technology / Electronic engineering / Mobile technology

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

Add to Reading List

Source URL: www.kiwanja.net

Language: English - Date: 2009-07-21 04:50:04
252Mobile technology / Mobile telecommunications / Economics / Development / Economy of Tanzania / Microfinance / Mobile payment / M-Pesa / Mobile commerce / Technology / Electronic commerce / Payment systems

CreditSMS Helps Structure Informal Mobile Finance Ken Banks and Benjamin Lyon, IDG News Mobile commerce (m-commerce) is quickly becoming one of the most cost-effective, far-reaching means of giving the ‘un-banked’ po

Add to Reading List

Source URL: www.kiwanja.net

Language: English - Date: 2009-08-19 08:35:44
253Electronics / Mobile telecommunications / FrontlineSMS / Ken Banks / Google / Mobile phone / Internet / Technology / Digital media / New media

Searching where Google can’t Ken Banks, IDG News We read a lot about the delivery, and popularity, of SMS services such as market prices, health advice and job alerts in developing countries, information there is clear

Add to Reading List

Source URL: www.kiwanja.net

Language: English - Date: 2009-07-09 10:21:19
254Development / Linux-based devices / Subnotebooks / Information and communication technologies for development / Appropriate technology / OLPC XO-1 / Classmate PC / Nicholas Negroponte / Intel / One Laptop per Child / Technology / Classes of computers

Intel, OLPC affordable laptop bout only hurts users Ken Banks, IDG News Anyone with the remotest interest in ICT for development won’t have failed to notice the battle raging at the “bottom of the pyramid”, where c

Add to Reading List

Source URL: www.kiwanja.net

Language: English - Date: 2008-11-24 10:57:18
255FrontlineSMS / Mobile telecommunications / Ken Banks / Text messaging / Mobile phone / SMS / Medic Mobile / Technology / Mobile technology / Wireless

Mobile phones play role in Zimbabwe Ken Banks, IDG News Mobile phones are revolutionising communications across the globe, more so in developing countries where landline infrastructure is lacking in many rural and urban

Add to Reading List

Source URL: www.kiwanja.net

Language: English - Date: 2008-11-24 10:18:59
256Mobile telecommunications / Videotelephony / Digital audio players / Smartphones / IPhone / Nokia / Mobile phone / SMS / Information and communication technologies for development / Technology / Electronic engineering / Electronics

Mobile phones and the digital divide Ken Banks, IDG News Whether you’re building an application for the 3G iPhone in the United States, or trying to figure out how to deliver health information via SMS to a rural commu

Add to Reading List

Source URL: www.kiwanja.net

Language: English - Date: 2008-11-24 13:39:02
257Mobile telecommunications / Ken Banks / Year of birth missing / Information and communication technologies for development / Community radio / FrontlineSMS / Mobile phone / Development communication / Radio network / Technology / Communication / Development

Mobile phones join the rural radio mix Ken Banks, IDG News A little over a year ago I found myself sitting in the San Francisco offices of an international humanitarian NGO (non-governmental organisation). Their main foc

Add to Reading List

Source URL: www.kiwanja.net

Language: English - Date: 2009-01-29 10:11:28
258Electronic commerce / Wireless networking / Mobile banking / Mobile content / Mobile phone / .mobi / Nokia / Nexus One / Wireless / Technology / Mobile technology / Mobile telecommunications

Glimpsing into a mobile future Ken Banks, IDG News Few companies innovate with the intensity and frequency of those working in mobile, and today’s present is a future that only a handful of people would have predicted

Add to Reading List

Source URL: www.kiwanja.net

Language: English - Date: 2009-06-28 05:26:26
259Appropriate technology / Information and communication technologies for development / Ken Banks / Mobile phone / Small Is Beautiful / E. F. Schumacher / Mobile Web / One Laptop per Child / .mobi / Technology / Simple living / Mobile telecommunications

Appropriate technology and the humble mobile phone Ken Banks, IDG News It’s not often you read a book and find that, ten years on, it remains central to your thinking. Ideas come and go, paradigms shift and many books

Add to Reading List

Source URL: www.kiwanja.net

Language: English - Date: 2008-11-24 13:37:54
260Mobile technology / Walkie-talkie / Two-way radio / Mobile phone / Cellular network / Mobile phones on aircraft / MOTO Talk / Technology / Mobile telecommunications / Radio

Where walkie-talkies dare Ken Banks, IDG News What happens when a rural farmer needs to arrange transport to get their produce to market? Or a healthcare worker wants to check the availability of a drug in a nearby clini

Add to Reading List

Source URL: www.kiwanja.net

Language: English - Date: 2009-01-19 03:20:54
UPDATE