Mainstreaming ICT

Okay, Spurred on by the “success” of Community Mobile Channels making it to round 2 of Knight News Challenge I have made a few useful changes and released a new version. This covers the following main changes.
* Overall CSS improvements
* Design improvements on home pages - both public and logged in
* Latest sites stream
* Channels [...]

Okay so a new year is here and it is a year with a lot of expectations. Of course in South Africa the World Cup will be the dominant event but besides that there are a load of other things that will be going on with regard to Information and Communication Technology and how we [...]

Okay - I didn’t go to Mobile Web Africa which appeared to be well thought of by all who twittered it. I had arranged to go to the SANGONeT Social media for NGOs conference later that week and honestly since (unlike the company/organisation sponsored people) I don’t get paid to attend - 2 conferences in [...]

The most visited post on this site has been the “quick brain dump of great resources for the mobile developer” -  In that post I mentioned a number of other interesting technologies that I did not have time to cover. So here is quick brain dump of great resources for the mobile developer that I [...]

Looking through the Millenium Goals together the resources I had previously put together for the Microsoft Challenge I came very distrubing facts and figures regarding child mortality especially related to poor and remote locations and non-reporting of births.
Based upon this I quickly wrote up a idea based around notification and follow up of Births and [...]

It seems that the M4Change tag on delicious worked. So, following on from EngageJoes comments regarding the Mobile Ideas Factory - I have compiled a quick braindump of information that I have come across that would be of use to a mobile developer / person working with tech in the non-profit sector. There is much [...]

From http://www.internetnews.com/stats/article.php/3810911/Daily+Mobile+Internet+Use+Doubles.htm
“The number of people using mobile devices to access news and information on the Internet more than doubled in the past year, according to figures released by market firm ComScore this week.
Young males are the most avid users of mobile news and information, according to Comscor (NASDAQ: SCOR), with half of 18-to 34-year-old males [...]

I am very pleased to announce that the Community Mobile Channels Version 0.1 Alpha source code and demo is now available (on this site!). To visit the demo go to http://www.mainstreamingict.org/cmc
There are a few example M-sites (micro websites) loaded up onto the demo and you are free to register if you would like to [...]

As the mobiles for development movement gathers huge momentum there are two very interesting challenges over at net squared.
Firstly there is the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley Mobile Challenge. They are  sponsoring a challenge to encourage innovations for applying mobile technologies for human rights investigations and advocacy. This will be the [...]

As detailed in the mobile phones page - cellphone and mobile based solutions to development issues are becoming widespread.
At the GSM World Mobile Conference in February 2009, the Rockefeller Foundation, United Nations Foundation and Vodafone Foundation announced an agreement to form the mHealth Alliance to facilitate global innovation and ensure maximum impact in the field [...]