by Avner Mizrahi | Mar 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
Update: Learn How organizations are using engageSPARK to fight COVID-19 (Coronavirus) As you may know, engageSPARK is a social enterprise: the reason we exist is to help people. We want to do our part to help with the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) response. Communication is...
by Avner Mizrahi | Mar 6, 2014 | ICT
Did you know that there is a 23% gap in literacy between adult men and women in South Asia – the highest gap in the world? That 21% of the labor force in Sub-Saharan Africa is unemployed? What about that only 39% of people in developing countries have a mobile phone?...
by Avner Mizrahi | Nov 21, 2013 | ICT, Technology
You work at an international NGO in Kenya that focuses on agriculture. You go out into the field and meet with poor smallholder farmers from whom you’ve gathered 20,000 mobile phone numbers. These farmers all happen to be literate, so you’ve decided to engage with...
by Avner Mizrahi | Oct 31, 2013 | Technology
Building engageSPARK has involved a great deal of research about various subjects. One area that we’ve spent a lot of time analyzing is how to send and receive SMS messages and voice calls throughout the world. We believe that the self-service mobile automation...
by Avner Mizrahi | Aug 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
Over the last few months, two new developments have arisen regarding social enterprise legal forms. First, Delaware has passed new legislation enabling organizations to incorporate as a Benefit Corporation – what some have called “historic Benefit Corporation...
