by Jenny Adlem | Oct 9, 2013 | ICT, Technology
These are exciting times for Africa as internet coverage spreads across the continent. All kinds of innovative businesses, ideas, connections and opportunities are being developed. However, the news is not all positive and there are many challenges still to be solved....
by Jenny Adlem | Oct 2, 2013 | ICT, 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...
by Jenny Adlem | Sep 25, 2013 | 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. ...
by Ravi Agarwal | Sep 18, 2013 | 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...
by Sahiba Minhas | Sep 11, 2013 | 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 endeavour is in collaboration with other tech giants and aims...
by David Hutchful | Sep 5, 2013 | ICT, 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...
by Avner Mizrahi | Aug 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
Over the last few months, two new developments have arisen regarding social enterprise legal forms. First, Delaware has passed new legislation enabling organizations to incorporate as a Benefit Corporation – what some have called “historic Benefit Corporation...
by Sahiba Minhas | Aug 21, 2013 | ICT, 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...
by Jenny Adlem | Aug 14, 2013 | Design
As mHealth campaigns increase in number around the world the need for careful planning and reviewing results becomes ever emphasised. Although a campaign may work brilliantly in one region it may also flounder and fail in another. Local situations and cultures need to...
by Sahiba Minhas | Aug 7, 2013 | 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...
