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A month ago my friend Ken Banks of Kiwanja launched a competition that encourages grassroots NGOs in developing countries to submit ideas on ways they could use text messaging in their work. This can be in health, human rights, the environment, activism, education or whatever. The best four entries will win laptop computers, Nokia phones, GSM modems and $1,000 in cash, courtesy of a range of sponsors which include Hewlett Packard, Nokia and Wieden+Kennedy.
I think its a worth wile cause on many fronts.
Visit www.ngomobile.org for more info
via
http://www.saidia.org/2007/09/18/ngos-going-mobile/
http://whiteafrican.com/?p=748
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