David Hutchful, Author at SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, and Airtime Campaigns in 200+ Countries /blog/author/davidhutchful/ Survey & message hard-to-reach populations – at scale Wed, 10 Apr 2024 09:41:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 /wp-content/uploads/2017/03/engagespark_logo_small.png David Hutchful, Author at SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, and Airtime Campaigns in 200+ Countries /blog/author/davidhutchful/ 32 32 Protocols for Keeping People Connected: SMPP, PRI and HTTP for SMS and Voice /blog/behind-scenes-keeping-people-connected-non-technical-description-technical-requirements-connecting-mnos-content-providers-for-sms-and-voice/ /blog/behind-scenes-keeping-people-connected-non-technical-description-technical-requirements-connecting-mnos-content-providers-for-sms-and-voice/#respond Thu, 05 Sep 2013 12:56:14 +0000 http://engageSPARK.com/blog/?p=1139 The promise of the mobile phone lays in its capacity to keep people connected and engaged in various forms of dialogue. At engageSPARK our goal is to leverage this medium of communication to promote a dialogue that ultimately betters the social and economic status of our end users. In a previous post, we looked at […]

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]]> Where the Rubber Hits the Road: The Technology Behind Mobile Phones for Development (M4D) /blog/the-technology-behind-mobile-phones-for-development-m4d/ /blog/the-technology-behind-mobile-phones-for-development-m4d/#respond Thu, 16 May 2013 12:47:49 +0000 http://engageSPARK.com/blog/?p=509 Our dream at engageSPARK – the first product under the Opportunity Labs umbrella – is to make it very easy to use the mobile phone for social good. We have identified some neat ways to achieve this and we can’t wait to share engageSPARK with everyone once it’s ready. Our solution is not going to exist in a vacuum and so […]

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