Oct 2, 2013 | Social Impact, Technology
Last week saw Mashable’s Social Good Summit taking place in New York. You can read summaries of the talks and discussions that took place on the Mashable website. As I was reading through reports of the talks I was particularly taken by a panel discussion on the...
Sep 25, 2013 | Social Impact, Technology
The scope for what you can use a mobile phone for is increasing year by year. Once they were used for making calls alone, but they are about so much more now. And their potential grows ever more exciting as they become cheaper and more accessible around the world. ...
Sep 11, 2013 | Social Impact, Technology, Uncategorized
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...
Sep 5, 2013 | Social Impact, Technology
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...
Aug 21, 2013 | Social Impact, Technology
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...
Aug 7, 2013 | Social Impact, Technology
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...
