International press interest may be on the wane following the heady heights of recent months, but the daily struggle continues for millions of people living in Zimbabwe. An inflation rate of over two million percent – usually a leading headline in itself – merely serves as a backdrop to the political maneuvering taking place following … Continue reading Zimbabweans speak out through SMS
Month: July 2008
NEWS: kiwanja’s latest PC World column online
kiwanja’s latest article has just been posted on the PC World website. “Mobile Phones and the Digital Divide” takes a look at some of the challenges the industry is going to have to work through if mobile phones are truly going to be the devices that close the digital divide. The article can be read … Continue reading NEWS: kiwanja’s latest PC World column online
Three is not the magic number…
It’s 1.4.7… One month ago the new version of FrontlineSMS was released. Well over three hundred NGOs responded and downloaded the software, and over a hundred of them have joined the new online community. Apart from the excitement surrounding the software itself, the new community is already proving its worth. I’d easily have settled for … Continue reading Three is not the magic number…
Anthropologists! Anthropologists!
Found this today on Facebook – by the “Far Side” creator, Gary Larson – a day after posting my latest PC World column on the application of anthropology in ICT. Very funny – and no doubt just how it is… =)
NEWS: kiwanja’s latest PC World column posted online
kiwanja’s latest article has just been posted on the PC World website. “Anthropology’s Technology-driven Renaissance” looks at some of the mystery surrounding the discipline, and examines the role anthropologists continue to play in the ICT4D and wider development fields. The article can be read here
NEWS: kiwanja.net guest article published on BBC News website
BBC News have just published a guest article by kiwanja.net on the “Technology” and “Science/Nature” pages of its website. Ken Banks was approached to write the article after the recent launch of the latest FrontlineSMS, and increasing exposure of kiwanja’s work. The article looks at the broader use of mobile technology in conservation and development … Continue reading NEWS: kiwanja.net guest article published on BBC News website
NEWS: New “mobility” project unveiled
How do we unlock the full potential of mobile applications development for users in the developing world? What would a mobile-based programming environment look like? “mobility”, a collaborative project announced by kiwanja.net, hopes to find out. Check out the website for details More on the kiwanja.net News page
NEWS: kiwanja.net lined up to appear at Rhode Island conference
Ken Banks has been invited as one of only 25 speakers to present at a conference at Brown University in Rhode Island this November. The conference, A Better World By Design, “asks the question today’s designers, engineers, and economists should be asking. How can we use technology to improve the world? Hear answers from world-class … Continue reading NEWS: kiwanja.net lined up to appear at Rhode Island conference
NEWS: kiwanja guest chapter in new digital learning publication
kiwanja.net was recently invited to contribute a chapter on mobile learning for a new book, “Education for a Digital World“. Described as a guide, resource, textbook and manual for policymakers and practitioners in developing and developed countries, the book has been published as a collaborative effort by fifty contributors from around the world representing the … Continue reading NEWS: kiwanja guest chapter in new digital learning publication
NEWS: Silverback mobile game featured on National Geographic Channel
National Geographic are profiling kiwanja’s “Silverback” mobile phone game as part of their promotion of “Gorilla Murders“, a new programme about the plight of the mountain gorillas in Central Africa (showing in July on their cable channel in the US). The website has also republished kiwanja’s earlier Blog post on the thinking behind the game. … Continue reading NEWS: Silverback mobile game featured on National Geographic Channel
The Social Mobile Long Tail 2.0
A few months ago I finally got round to diagramming what I thought mobile applications development in the not-for-profit space looked like. I came up with this, and called it “Social Mobile’s Long Tail“. It was based on the original Long Tail concept, first talked about by Chris Anderson in a Wired Magazine article, when … Continue reading The Social Mobile Long Tail 2.0
Three years on, but still some way to go…
I’m writing this from seat 7D at exactly 38,000 feet somewhere between Forssa and Cambridge. Normally seat 7D would be in first- or business-class, but unfortunately for me I’m on a Ryanair (low cost airline) flight. Nothing fancy here. I’m returning from a short combined work and pleasure trip to Finland, where exactly three years … Continue reading Three years on, but still some way to go…