Sahiba Minhas, Author at SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, and Airtime Campaigns in 200+ Countries /blog/author/sahibaminhas/ Survey & message hard-to-reach populations – at scale Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:03:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /wp-content/uploads/2017/03/engagespark_logo_small.png Sahiba Minhas, Author at SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, and Airtime Campaigns in 200+ Countries /blog/author/sahibaminhas/ 32 32 Four Lessons on the Fight against Poverty from Grameen Foundation /blog/four-lessons-fight-against-poverty-grameen/ /blog/four-lessons-fight-against-poverty-grameen/#respond Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:48:54 +0000 http://engageSPARK.com/blog/?p=1466 Toward the end of last year, Grameen Foundation shared its key lessons and resources for the fight against poverty. Provided below is a summary of those lessons – learnt and affirmed by the organisation and some additional details into the foundation’s work and experiences. More importantly, the foundation is not just providing lessons, but also tools that […]

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]]> /blog/four-lessons-fight-against-poverty-grameen/feed/ 0 Can Foreign Aid End Poverty? /blog/can-foreign-aid-end-poverty/ /blog/can-foreign-aid-end-poverty/#comments Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:53:04 +0000 http://engageSPARK.com/blog/?p=1432 The post Can Foreign Aid End Poverty? appeared first on SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, and Airtime Campaigns in 200+ Countries.

]]> /blog/can-foreign-aid-end-poverty/feed/ 4 How Mobile Phones Are Revolutionizing Community Case Management /blog/community-case-management-mobile-phones/ /blog/community-case-management-mobile-phones/#respond Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:59:42 +0000 http://engageSPARK.com/blog/?p=1370 I recently read about D-Tree’s case study in Malawi on using mobile-based decision trees for Community Case Management (CCM) at the ict4chw google group mailing list, ICT for Community Health Workers. I was impressed by how organisations like D-Tree are using as simple and ubiquitous a technology as mobiles to better equip health workers. D-Tree […]

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]]> /blog/community-case-management-mobile-phones/feed/ 0 Tackling Youth Unemployment With Mobile Phones /blog/tackling-youth-unemployment-mobile-phones/ /blog/tackling-youth-unemployment-mobile-phones/#comments Wed, 27 Nov 2013 11:42:19 +0000 http://engageSPARK.com/blog/?p=1344 The world is predicting the next financial crisis in the form of youth unemployment that threatens to destabilise economies. Youth unemployment is a cause of major concern as we witness increased violence in the Middle East and North Africa, high rates of income inequality in the United States and political unrest in Europe. In today’s blog […]

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]]> /blog/tackling-youth-unemployment-mobile-phones/feed/ 3 More Internet Equals Less Poverty. Who Cares If It Makes Facebook Richer? /blog/internet-less-poverty-facebook-richer/ /blog/internet-less-poverty-facebook-richer/#comments Wed, 11 Sep 2013 11:59:41 +0000 http://engageSPARK.com/blog/?p=1156 A few weeks ago Facebook’s co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced a new project called Internet.org to further extend internet access to developing countries and reduce poverty. This new endeavor is in collaboration with other tech giants and aims to reduce the cost of delivering basic internet services, particularly in the developing world. In […]

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]]> /blog/internet-less-poverty-facebook-richer/feed/ 2 Why Technology Is the Future of Conflict Prevention /blog/technology-future-conflict-prevention/ /blog/technology-future-conflict-prevention/#comments Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:50:19 +0000 http://engageSPARK.com/blog/?p=1064 Over the last decade or so the use of ICTs (information, communications, and technology – social media, internet, and mobile phones) have actively shaped conflicts, as witnessed in Tunisia and Egypt. Citizen engagement or just passive participation by the virtue of being a recipient of ICT communications, in important socio-political transformations has become more ubiquitous […]

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]]> /blog/technology-future-conflict-prevention/feed/ 6 How Mobile Phones Are Bringing Change in Governance /blog/mobile-phones-bringing-change-governance/ /blog/mobile-phones-bringing-change-governance/#comments Wed, 07 Aug 2013 07:34:34 +0000 http://engageSPARK.com/blog/?p=1026 Currently, there are as many mobile-cellular subscriptions in the world as there are people, with more than half of the users in the Asia-Pacific region – 3.5 billion of the 6.8 billion total subscriptions (ICT Facts and Figures by International Telecommunication Union ITU). This does not necessarily mean that every person in this world has […]

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]]> /blog/mobile-phones-bringing-change-governance/feed/ 6 Ploughing a Better Reap with m-Agriculture /blog/ploughing-better-reap-magriculture/ /blog/ploughing-better-reap-magriculture/#comments Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:20:32 +0000 http://engageSPARK.com/blog/?p=963 Three female entrepreneurs in 2010 got together to develop a mobile solution that would provide market price transparency for Kenyan farmers. Jamilla Abass co-founded M-Farm – an m-Agriculture program – with Susan Oguya and Linda Kwamnoka. The exploitation of farmers at the hands of middlemen, due to their lack of information on market prices motivated […]

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