by Sunny Yang | Dec 4, 2013 | SMS, Social Impact, Technology
At engageSPARK, we are strong proponents of using Voice for Mobile and ICT Development projects, so it’s great to see large organizations such as the GSMA putting their support behind Voice as a mobile development service method. GSMA focuses on voice in its article,...
by Avner Mizrahi | Nov 21, 2013 | engageSPARK Platform, SMS, Social Impact, Technology
You work at an international NGO in Kenya that focuses on agriculture. You go out into the field and meet with poor smallholder farmers from whom you’ve gathered 20,000 mobile phone numbers. These farmers all happen to be literate, so you’ve decided to engage with...
by Jenny Adlem | Nov 13, 2013 | Monitoring and Evaluation, Social Impact, Technology
SMS is one of the most transformative technologies that we have. At least, it has the power to be. Increasing numbers of people across the world have access to mobile phones, and SMS is a very cheap way to communicate on them. The amazing versatility of SMS can be...
by Avner Mizrahi | Oct 31, 2013 | Businesses, engageSPARK Platform, Market Research, Technology
Building engageSPARK has involved a great deal of research about various subjects. One area that we’ve spent a lot of time analyzing is how to send and receive SMS messages and voice calls throughout the world. We believe that the self-service mobile automation...
by Jenny Adlem | 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. ...
