Project
What started out as OKN Mobile in Kenya (a project of OneWorld, the NGO that coordinates OKN) has now become an independent Kenyan company called Mobile for Good Kenya (Mobile4Good). The project is designed to use mobile phone technology to help alleviate poverty and improve the lives of people in the developing world. It delivers vital health, employment and community content via SMS on mobile phones in order to inform and empower disadvantaged individuals. Its job brokering service, ‘Kazi560’, has been particularly successful, with over 30,000 subscribers (as of February 2006) and figures showing that in 2005, over 13,000 jobs in Kenya were filled by people who received job information through the service.