Video interview with IKSL: How to provide the right information at the right time for Agri VAS
Thursday 9 August, 2012 | AgriTech | Blog | India | South Asia
Last month, my colleague Amol Jadhav and I visited the IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Limited (IKSL) State operations team in Karnataka, India. I’ve worked with the IKSL project for a number of years and I’m always inspired to see the hard work of the IKSL agriculture operations team ...
Flooding in the Philippines: A Look at SMART’s Disaster Response Activities
Thursday 9 August, 2012 | Blog | Disaster response | East Asia and Pacific | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Philippines
On Monday, August 6th, Tropical Storm Haiku hit the Philippines, exacerbating precipitation from the south-west monsoon rains and causing mass flooding affecting 850,000 people and displacing more than 250,000. We provide an overview of Smart's response activities.
Hacking for Health: Working with Technology to Improve Healthcare in Malawi
Thursday 2 August, 2012 | Blog | mHealth
The following is a guest post by Isaac Holeman. It’s an excerpt that appeared on National Geographic News Watch, as part of the Digital Diversity series. Read it in its entirety here. After driving south to the end of the pavement, we continued on gravel and dirt roads ...
A call towards a “Better Life”: Marketing Agri Value Added Services to Rural Communities in India
Wednesday 1 August, 2012 | AgriTech | Blog | India | Partnership engagement | South Asia
On a recent trip to India, our Programme Director Fiona Smith and I had the opportunity to visit a few Agri VAS field deployments. One visit that stood out was to the Shekhpura Village in Rajasthan (Northern India) to see Handygo’s marketing and sales activities of their ...
Managing Post-Storm and Disaster Power Outages: Is Distributed Generation a Solution?
Wednesday 25 July, 2012 | Blog | Disaster response | Global | Global | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation
The Eastern United States was sweltering at the end of June. The record-high temperatures caused a rare storm called a “derecho” which produces straight-line winds across a wide front of near-hurricane speeds. We look at the implications for power outages in this type of ...
Mobile operator value proposition increasingly aligns with health
Monday 23 July, 2012 | Blog | mHealth
In just the last three years alone, the industry has witnessed significant strides that mobile operators have made in expanding from direct-to-consumer health services to the enterprise health market. Orange, together with GE, has been awarded a contract to integrate the ...
Talk ‘N’ Text addresses women’s biggest barrier to ownership: affordability
Thursday 19 July, 2012 | Blog | Connected Women | Gender | Mobile access and use | Philippines | South Asia
How Talk 'N' text is enabling women's access and use of mobile in the Philippines through designing a more affordable handset, and offering a product for underserved women to use SMS and voice - Panalo Phone.
Pilot-itis: What’s the cure?
Tuesday 17 July, 2012 | Blog | mHealth
The following is a guest post by Sara Chamberlain, Head of ICT in India for BBC Media Action. This post originally appeared here. Speakers at the GSMA Mobile Health (mHealth) Summit in South Africa bemoaned the ‘Pilot-itis’ – the inability to break out of pilot ...
Collaboration essential to achieve scale in mHealth
Wednesday 11 July, 2012 | Blog | mHealth
Across Africa, 6 countries boast mobile penetration rates in excess of 100 percent. Cognisant of the fact that only one Mobile Operator (MNO) across the African continent has 100 percent market share (Ethiopia)[1], it stands to reason that leveraging the reach of mobile ...
Leveraging Information and Communication Technology for the Base of the Pyramid: Innovative business models in agriculture services
Tuesday 10 July, 2012 | AgriTech | Blog | Global | Global
In 2011, Hystra, a consulting firm specializing in hybrid (social and business) strategies, and its non-profit partner Ashoka, reviewed more than 280 initiatives globally that used Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to provide education, healthcare, agro-services ...