Jul 3, 2013 | Businesses, Humanitarian Agencies, Social Impact, Technology
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...
Jun 20, 2013 | Businesses, Humanitarian Agencies, Social Impact, Technology
Only a few rigorous evaluations of mobile phone-based behavior change initiatives have been completed. But they all suggest a similar conclusion: initiatives fail unless there is a meaningful intermediation process. That is, merely providing beneficiaries access to...
May 9, 2013 | Announcements, Humanitarian Agencies, Social Impact
“You are not the user.” This is the first lesson a designer is taught in school when learning how to design a product whether it is a toothbrush, a flight navigation system or a simple website. To design an easy-to-use product, a designer must be a user...
Apr 24, 2013 | Humanitarian Agencies, Social Impact
Last week, I read an interesting blog post from Linda Raftree about an NYC and London Technology Salon session on how mobile phones are improving the reach and impact of women empowerment initiatives. In the Tech Salon, they quote a GSMA estimate that mobile...
