Planning and Implementing a Mobile Interactive Voice System
Long neglected in favor of SMS, mobile apps and the mobile web, voice is enjoying a resurgence in mobile tech for social change projects. There are good reasons for this: Voice is universally...
View ArticleDesign Opportunities and Challenges in Indian Urban Slums – Community…
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View ArticleEqual Access: Creating a Community Feedback Loop with Radio and Mobile…
We spoke with Prairie Summer and Graham Gardner of Equal Access to learn more about that organization’s work integrating educational radio broadcasts with mobile-based tools such as SMS and IVR. As...
View ArticleSewing Seeds with SMS: Assessing Mobile Phones’ Role in Agricultural…
Mobile phones may be one mechanism to increase effectiveness and efficiency for agricultural extension in low-income countries. Agricultural extension, broadly defined as the delivery of information...
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Newest Case Study from the Toolkit: Mobile Media Lessons from Afghanistan
A lot is happening right now with media development in Afghanistan (and no one seems to be writing about it.) For instance, a project between iMedia Associates and Media Support Partnership...
View ArticleOpen Congress, Just a Call Away (Brought to You by the Sunlight Foundation)
The Sunlight Foundation, always pushing the envelop on tech and open government in the United States and increasingly worldwide, launched a new service today: Call to Congress. The number...
View ArticleAre Smartphones Making SMS Projects Obsolete?
Are SMS projects still relevant? Are toll-free phone numbers still needed? As more and more people in developing countries have access to cheap smartphones and third generation (3G) network coverage,...
View ArticleThe Low-Tech Way to Reach Everyone on Earth
We often focus on new technologies – developing the newest app or handing every teacher a tablet – as if they are magic bullets to solving the world’s development problems. While it would be great if...
View ArticleYes, Farmers Do Use Mobile Phones for Market Prices
Farmers in Malawi had free access to market prices via mobile phones for about three months using HNI’s 3‑2‑1 Service. Usage data was rolling in. And along come two posts on ICT Works that are highly...
View ArticleGetting More Data for Less Money
Remote Data Collection Comes of Age More data for less money. That sounds like an unrealistic expectation – but in a recent blog post, we noted that the unprecedented rollout of mobile phones to even...
View ArticleThe Blind Spot of SMS Projects: Constituent Illiteracy
With the overwhelming optimism around mobile phone-based communication technologies, it is reasonable to ponder: Do literacy levels pose a serious limitation to SMS-based communication campaigns?...
View ArticleRemote Data Collection Comes of Age
Over the last twenty years, an important change has occurred in the options for mobile electronic data collection: remote data collection (no field trip needed!). This post will introduce the concepts...
View ArticleIVR, Facebook and WhatsApp: tech and M&E at AfrEA
Our latest Technology Salon, at the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) Conference in Uganda on March 29th, focused on how mobile and social media platforms are being used in monitoring and...
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