May 15, 2014 | Businesses, engageSPARK Platform, Social Impact, Uncategorized
The Philippines needs more jobs, and some people are hoping that tech can play a part in the solution. I was packing relief goods in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) when I first began to realize the extent of the problem. My fellow packers were...
Feb 13, 2014 | Social Impact, Technology, Uncategorized
The GSMA has just published a report titled, “Unlocking the Potential: Women and Mobile Financial Services in Emerging Markets,” which provides a very detailed look into how women are using Mobile Financial Services (MFS) and the challenges and learnings...
Jan 30, 2014 | Humanitarian Agencies, Monitoring and Evaluation, Social Impact, Uncategorized
The UK Government recently launched a new scheme aimed at improving the lives of individuals in developing countries who work for suppliers operating in the global supply chain. The program, Trade in Global Value Chains Initiative, uses UK government aid money to...
Jan 22, 2014 | Businesses, Social Impact, Uncategorized
JN Fang writes about her experience as an Opportunity Labs Technology Fellow with engageSPARK in Cebu City, Philippines during December 2013 and January 2014. At some point between getting my news from Junior Scholastic and joining high school debate, I decided that I...
Jan 8, 2014 | SMS, Social Impact, Technology, Uncategorized
Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda, which recently ravaged the Philippines, has inspired us at engageSPARK to spend even more time thinking about how to built great SMS and Voice tools that can be used for disaster awareness and disaster relief efforts. The GSMA has been...
Sep 18, 2013 | Announcements, engageSPARK Platform, Social Impact, Uncategorized
In case you’ve been wondering, a lot of things have been happening at Opportunity Labs in the last few months! Our team has been working tirelessly on building, refining and iterating our engageSPARK solution, as we continue to get invaluable internal and external...
