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Posted by National Geographic Emerging Explorer Ken Banks, a UK software developer working to give grassroots groups the world over the capacity to interact, cheaply and simply, with constituents in remote communities, has won the 2011 Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. Ken Banks is the developer of FrontlineSMS, a simple yet…
Posted by Using basic mobile phones and text messages, “invisible” poor or homeless people in India and Africa can be counted as individuals with needs and rights — and receive their share of social resources. In this installment of Digital Diversity, Matt Berg, a technology practitioner and researcher in the Modi Research Group at the…
Leapfrogging PCs, Africa’s burgeoning generation of mobile tech-savvy entrepreneurs is bursting with ideas and practical inventions, from African apps for smart phones to software solutions that address uniquely local challenges. In this installment of Digital Diversity, Kenya-based Erik Hersman, a co-founder of Ushahidi, a free and open source platform for crowdsourcing information and visualizing data,…
One year after an earthquake devastated Haiti, Survivors Connect, an organization that uses technology and social media to empower citizens around the world to address slavery and violence, has set up a text message helpline to report crimes in the country. In this installment of Digital Diversity, Aashika Damodar, the founder and CEO of Survivors Connect,…
In this installment of the Digital Diversity series, Jan Chipchase, Executive Creative Director of Global Insights at Frog Design, discusses how mobile technology may be used for personal banking in Afghanistan, a country challenged by limited access to traditional banking infrastructure and widespread distrust of formal institutions. By Jan Chipchase There’s a moment at the end of every…
Innovator, anthropologist and National Geographic Emerging Explorer, Ken Banks shares exciting stories in Digital Diversity about how appropriate technologies and mobile phones are being used throughout the world to improve, enrich, and empower billions of lives. In the second Digital Diversity, Ken Banks interviews Bev Clark, program director of Freedom Fone, and a founder of…
In Digital Diversity, a new series of blog posts for Nat Geo News Watch starting today, innovator, anthropologist and National Geographic Emerging Explorer Ken Banks shares exciting stories about how innovative technologies and mobile phones are being used throughout the world to improve, enrich, and empower billions of lives. This first post sets the stage.…
