Avner Mizrahi, Author at SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, and Airtime Campaigns in 200+ Countries /blog/author/avnermengagespark-com/ Survey & message hard-to-reach populations – at scale Mon, 04 Dec 2023 19:18:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 /wp-content/uploads/2017/03/engagespark_logo_small.png Avner Mizrahi, Author at SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, and Airtime Campaigns in 200+ Countries /blog/author/avnermengagespark-com/ 32 32 Letter from CEO: We want to help with COVID-19 (Coronavirus) /blog/letter-from-ceo-we-want-to-help-with-covid-19-coronavirus/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 02:49:18 +0000 /?p=37480 The post Letter from CEO: We want to help with COVID-19 (Coronavirus) appeared first on SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, and Airtime Campaigns in 200+ Countries.

]]> Have You Used Statistics to Help Design Your Programs /blog/statistics-help-design-programs/ /blog/statistics-help-design-programs/#respond Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:20:27 +0000 http://engageSPARK.com/blog/?p=1497 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? These statistics are important. […]

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]]> /blog/statistics-help-design-programs/feed/ 0 Can You SMS in Your Native Language? /blog/can-you-sms-your-native-language/ /blog/can-you-sms-your-native-language/#comments Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:52:12 +0000 http://engageSPARK.com/blog/?p=1322 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 them via SMS, but the only language they all understand […]

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]]> /blog/can-you-sms-your-native-language/feed/ 1 What You Don’t Know about Telcos, Aggregators, and Grey Routes /blog/telcos-aggregators-ss7-grey-routes/ /blog/telcos-aggregators-ss7-grey-routes/#comments Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:57:15 +0000 http://engageSPARK.com/blog/?p=1274 The post What You Don’t Know about Telcos, Aggregators, and Grey Routes appeared first on SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, and Airtime Campaigns in 200+ Countries.

]]> /blog/telcos-aggregators-ss7-grey-routes/feed/ 2 Will the SEEED Act Commission Have the Guts to Upend Existing Social Enterprise Legislation? /blog/seeed-act-social-enterprise-legislation/ /blog/seeed-act-social-enterprise-legislation/#respond Tue, 27 Aug 2013 23:45:22 +0000 http://engageSPARK.com/blog/?p=1116 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 legislation.” Second, U.S. Congressman David Cicilline (Democrat of Rhode Island) has proposed the Social Enterprise Ecosystem and Economic […]

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]]> /blog/seeed-act-social-enterprise-legislation/feed/ 0 Two Questions to Ask before Designing an M4D Project /blog/two-questions-ask-before-designing-m4d-project/ /blog/two-questions-ask-before-designing-m4d-project/#respond Wed, 03 Jul 2013 11:55:26 +0000 http://engageSPARK.com/blog/?p=820 Many of the articles on our blog focus on mHealth and mWomen interventions. Yet, such a large segment of the population in developing countries are smallholder or subsistence farmers (for example 65 percent in sub-Saharan Africa). This, along with the statistic that women contribute 60 to 80 percent of the labor used in subsistence farming […]

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