We’ve seen one simple mistake ruin SMS surveys again and again. It happens only with text messages, but if you plan a text survey, we’d love to help you avoid this mistake and improve your response rate. Let’s use a mobile operator in the Philippines...
I know how you feel. I have worked at an enterprise software company in the US, and I have also worked at a nonprofit (NGO) in the Philippines. So I’ve seen firsthand just how different those universes are, as well as how different the utilization of technology can be...
We live and work in the Philippines, which has been dubbed the “Text messaging capital of the world.” So we are very familiar with the power of 160 characters. But as a social enterprise whose goal is to eliminate poverty, we are familiar with another thing: the fact...
If you’re reading this, you’re part of the 40% of the world’s online population. While it may be hard for you to remember a time before you answered all unknown questions with, “Just google it,” 4.4 billion people have never used a search engine. In depth studies on...
In 2014, when mobile phones globally outnumber toilets, it seems pretty obvious that technology will have a major impact on an international public health crisis like Ebola. But obviously, not all approaches are equal. A recent amusing example was when a United...
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?...
