Mobiles for development

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Subs: Tools:
•mBanking • Text message quizzes
•mAgricultural • Keywords
•mActivism • Interactive voice response
• Data gathering
•mGovernment • Medicine Adherence
•mEducation • Daily Updates
•mHealth
Where:
• Africa
• Asia
• South-America
How:
• Sms
• Voice

Why Mobiles?
How about :
Internet,
Stand-alone
computers,
Posters,
Radio?
Mobile colonization?

Players:
-Providers
-Governments
-Companies
-Funders
-NGO’s
Success Stories:
-Papers
-Awards
Look at failures!

1 Million Mobile Phones are being added every week in Africa
Is this just an image of the Sahara? 

Or is this the place for innovation,
mobile empowerment,
partnerships and active participation?

What comes first?
-Reports
-Software development
-Research
-Pilots (pilotitis)
-Funding
-Partnerships
Large NGO’s vs. Small.
Open Source ?!?
You!!
What do you need?

Future?
-Mobile Internet
-MMS
-USSD
-Text Messages
#Governmental Programs
#Mobile Providers
#Company Workplace Programs
*Demand driven programs
*Look at problem then Solution
>No more duplicate efforts: open-data, collaboration, open-
source

Text to Change quiz:
Sms “go ttc” to 1008

Hajo van Beijma
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