Customer using a payphone at a yellow phone kiosk, Uganda

Health SMS

Project Health-SMS is an advanced text message reward and marketing system. With www.health-SMS.com and the power of today’s mobile phones, you can revolutionise the way your organisation communicates with its community and offer an unrivalled level of service for health promotions. The www.health-SMS.com portal offers targeted health promotion campaigns with subscribers being rewarded where it … Continue reading Health SMS

Customer using a payphone at a yellow phone kiosk, Uganda

Nokia Life Tools

Project Nokia Life Tools was a range of subscription information services Nokia launched for emerging markets in 2009, delivered on entry-level handsets such as the Nokia 2323 classic and 2330 classic and built around agriculture, education and entertainment content in local languages. The agriculture service gave farmers locally relevant market and input prices, farming tips … Continue reading Nokia Life Tools

Customer using a payphone at a yellow phone kiosk, Uganda

V-clinic

Project V-Clinic is a world leader in web and cell phone diet services, deploying products that increase voice, messaging and online revenues for operators and providing valuable health-based applications for consumers. V-Clinic brings services that were previously only available on desktop browsers direct to cell phones, and has already establised itself as the platform of … Continue reading V-clinic

Customer using a payphone at a yellow phone kiosk, Uganda

Geekcorps Ghana

Report The bridges.org/IICD ICT-Enabled Development Case Study Series profiled Geekcorps Ghana, an initiative matching skilled technology volunteers from the developed world with small and medium-sized businesses in Accra. Implemented by Geekcorps International and funded by USAID until 2003, volunteers spent three to four months on-site transferring technology skills to help local companies grow, addressing a … Continue reading Geekcorps Ghana