We continue our recent agriculture theme in this, the eighteenth in our series of FrontlineSMS guest posts. Here, Teddy Syahputra – a System Consultant at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Banda Aceh – talks about their use of the software, and how it is set to underpin a new nationwide SMS service in the … Continue reading Fishing meets texting in Banda Aceh
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SMS tackles farmer literacy in Niger
In this, the sixteenth in our series of FrontlineSMS guest posts, Joshua Haynes – a Masters student at The Fletcher School at Tufts University – describes their application of the software to help improve the lives of farmers in Niger, West Africa Projet Alphabétisation de Base par Cellulaire (ABC), conceived of and spearheaded by FrontlineSMS’s … Continue reading SMS tackles farmer literacy in Niger