Mobile phones and development: 2 publications.
advocacy, development, phone, poverty
For all those interested in what’s happening with mobile phones and development, advocacy and global poverty, two reports are very interesting. The first was written by Sally-Jean Shackleton of Women’s Net in South Africa and commissioned by UNICEF. It’s titled Rapid Assessment of Cell Phones for Development and aims to provide baseline data that will inform a strategy to launch a new generation of cell phone technologies to address underdevelopment and in particular HIV/AIDS as a development issue.
The second report comes out of a partnership of the UN Foundation and Vodafone. The report is called Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in Mobile Use by NGOs and examines real-life examples of and trends in wireless technology solutions being used to drive change in the areas of health, humanitarian assistance, and environmental conservation. (and there’s a very real-life fish head on the title page photo montage)