If your technology solution turns out to be more complicated than the actual problem you’re trying to solve then you’ve probably fallen into the “over-engineering” trap. The temptation to try to be all things to all people, or to cram in as much functionality as possible, can be the death of many technology-based projects. In … Continue reading With innovation, less can be more.
Tag: Twitter
Open or not open? That is the question.
For many of the open source “purists” in the ICT4D field, there is only one (relatively rigid) way to run an open source project. For others – usually those who have had to actually work through the many challenges and complexities of open sourcing a piece of software – things are rarely that clear-cut. Being … Continue reading Open or not open? That is the question.
@twitter meets @frontlinesms
@jack – inventor, Founder and Chairman of Twitter – meets up with @kiwanja – developer of FrontlineSMS – at the “Symposium on Technologies for Social Action” (e-STAS) conference in Malaga last week, where they both spoke about elements of citizen empowerment. In their quest for globally-available, affordable (free!) text messaging, the Twitter folk are not … Continue reading @twitter meets @frontlinesms
NEWS: FrontlineSMS updates now available via Twitter
Updates on FrontlineSMS – latest funding news, blog posts, news items, guest articles and case studies – are now available via Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/frontlinesms. If you’re also on Facebook you can also join the FrontlineSMS Supporters Group