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MOVIRTU: Mobile Phone Service For Rural Users Without A Handset
Movirtu‘s MXShare service enables people who cannot afford a phone or SIM card to own a virtual “Cloud Phone” account with their own telephone number. Once launched by a local operator, people subscribe to the service by visiting their local…
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BOI GARI: Mobile Library Run By Kids
In a unique initiative, children in Kolkata, are distributing books free of cost to children residing in rural areas to help educate them, and inculcate the reading habit in them.
Surojit Das, Shintu Das, Subha Das, Ayush Chettri and…
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SHUJAA: A Platform For East African Mobile App Developers
The Shujaa Solutions Developer Platform is a web based system that allows mobile software developers to upload and test their applications. It is especially catered for East Africa. Shujaa Solutions is in the process of negotiations with various companies including…
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IDEAFORGE: Mobile Power Alternatives
IdeaForge PowerAlternatives help you tap charge for your mobile phones wherever you are, from whatever is the nearest and the most convenient source.
Products in their line-up include a hand-cranked cell phone charger, a USB charger for your ordinary…
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THE SERVAL PROJECT: Mobiles Without Towers
The Serval Project is developing systems whereby mobile phones will not need cell towers to work.
Ordinary mobile phones rely on towers, wires in the ground, and other expensive infrastructure. That infrastructure can be damaged by disaster, war or…
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SITEONMOBILE: Internet Using SMS & Voice Commands Only
Siteonmobile is based on a patent-pending technology developed HP Labs India. The people behind siteonmobile are senior researchers and technologists at HP Lab India who believe in the role both mobile and internet can play in transforming lives in the…
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PROJECT MWANA: Using Mobiles For Health
Project Mwana’s aim is finding appropriate, scalable and impactful ways that mobile technologies can strengthen health services for mothers and infants in rural health clinics.
The Project Mwana blog is an effort to capture the process and thinking that…
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STICKY BITS: Fun, Social Way To Attach Digital Content
Sticky Bits is a fun, social way to attach digital content to real-world objects. You can attach photos, music, pdfs, zips, videos etc. to any barcode.
When someone scans this barcode, they’ll see what you and everyone else attached…
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TXTEAGLE: Cash Generating Micro-tasks For Mobile Phone Users
txteagle is a service that enables mobile phone subscribers to earn money and accumulate savings by completing simple micro-tasks for large corporate clients. Originally conceived as a mechanism to compensate rural Kenyan nurses, txteagle is now on track to becoming…
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ICHEKI: Tracking Public Transport In Kenya
iCheki, a system that commuters can use to track matatus and buses coming their way won US$3,000 (Kshs 240,000) in the 2010 MIT-AITI mobile programming business competition held on 30th July.
iCheki is derived from sheng slang. Cheki means…
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VONAGE: Call Your Facebook Friends For Free
Vonage World Mobile is an Internet phone service for mobile international calls that works through a download on your iPhone®, iPod touch®, BlackBerry® or Android™.
You simply download the Facebook app to your device. It recognizes you’re making a…