by Sahiba Minhas | Dec 11, 2013 | Monitoring and Evaluation, Social Impact, Technology
I recently read about D-Tree’s case study in Malawi on using mobile-based decision trees for Community Case Management (CCM) at the ict4chw google group mailing list, ICT for Community Health Workers. I was impressed by how organisations like D-Tree are using as...
by Jenny Adlem | 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...
by Jenny Adlem | Jul 24, 2013 | IVR (interactive Voice Response), SMS, Surveys, Technology
We have previously discussed the benefits of using SMS technology in mobile campaigns. Today we’re going to argue the case for voice broadcasting technology being incorporated in these campaigns. What is voice broadcasting? Voice broadcasting applications take...
by Sahiba Minhas | Jul 17, 2013 | Social Impact, Technology
Three female entrepreneurs in 2010 got together to develop a mobile solution that would provide market price transparency for Kenyan farmers. Jamilla Abass co-founded M-Farm – an m-Agriculture program – with Susan Oguya and Linda Kwamnoka. The exploitation...
by Jenny Adlem | Jun 26, 2013 | Market Research, Social Impact, Surveys, Technology
I first became aware of the systemic problem of accessibility for those with visual impairments during a job supporting a visually impaired student. Many battles were fought with lecturers and publishers over obtaining electronic copies of texts and lecture slides so...