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FRONTLINESMS IS EMPOWERING NGOs AROUND THE WORLD.
Burkina Faso
To provide news and events to journalist networks
Facilitate communication across research areas
Informing and updating staff about latest developments in their local area
Providing details of monthly meetings and updates to local journalist networks
Keeping in touch with volunteers across the country
Promoting good governance
Malaysia
Daily prayer bulletins and sharing information with the public
Information sharing system for latest weather, farming product prices, planting tips
Keeping volunteers updated about latest health news and activities
Assisting with fundraising
Bolivia
Information and reminders based on savings schemes for rural communities
Brazil
Information on workshops, cultural events and education activities to the general public
To run an education pilot programme
Advising handcraft workers on places to commercialise products, trade fairs, training opportunities
Demonstrating to computer science students to motivate them to create applications for local community
Improving relationships with supporters and asking them to take action
Creating social marketing projects for sponsoring addiction programs
Tracking the release of books in a "P2P" physical book sharing system
Promoting free cultural and educational activities
Sending links to information guides and events
Publicising projects promoting emerging artistic production
Implementing an SMS gateway to support Twitter
Empowering young people by sending information on job opportunities
Prague
Emergency alerts and notifications to embassy staff
Argentina
Environmental campaigning
Informing local markets about potato prices
Research into mobile guerrilla marketing
Keeping communities informed about weekend artistic events
Syncing data with patient records
Arranging and coordinating group meetings
Enhancing community radio programs
El Salvador
Providing market prices to farmers and producers via SMS
Cameroon
Information dissemination to rural communities
Recruiting people for health and business training seminars
Sharing technology news with professional peers nationwide
Communicating with small business partners internationally
Outreach services including fundraising, awareness creation and project development
Assisting with communications for womens' help groups
Carrying out farming surveys
Switzerland
To test facilitation of money transfers for microfinance customers
Providing information to people who don't have internet access
Audience interaction with an international radio program
Assisting in the production of an organic farming newspaper
Coordinating teams of electoral observers
Liberia
Campaign calling for old computers for re-use in schools
Assisting with free computer training in schools
Bangladesh
Observing elections
Creating campaigns for peace
Keeping field staff updated with security information
Allowing inter-community communication
Lebanon
Promoting human rights through education, training advocacy and lobbying
Mozambique
Help with the development of urban and rural areas of Mozambique
Advising on adverse weather conditions
Monitoring and citizen reporting of elections
Improving communications with union districts and farming associations
South Africa
Assisting a community radio station operated by university students
Providing HIV/AIDS information services to teachers
Communicating job placement and academic courses available to students
Communicating with communities during sponsored conservation fundraising events
Supporting math and science lessons in Lesotho
Sending trade union updates, events and stories to our members, organizing representatives
Organizing contacts made in townships into a central database
Explaining church activities, sending and receiving prayer requests
Building support for sustainable job creation projects, agri-villages and urban renewal programs
United States
Mobilising healthcare organizations and polling homeless people and day laborers
Helping student groups promote fair trade and free enterprise
Assisting communications for community radio
Sending messages about food availability to the homeless
Collecting public health data
Supporting civil rights campaigns and sharing event information
Encouraging voters and sending voter protection alerts during elections
Notifying citizen emergency response teams and assisting GPS plotting in disaster situations
Telemedicine screening and diagnosis, or as a disease surveillance tool
Collect anonymous reports of criminal activity, parse it and provide data patterns to police
Supporting 'quit-smoking' campaigns through the sending of tips and messages
Promotion of an independent film festival
Albania
Supporting civil society in its fight against corruption of public services
Sharing daily prayer requests with partners and believers
Communicating with farmers about market prices, organizing surveys
Connecting SMEs, informing them about tax and corruption issues
Ghana
Helping citizens monitor elections
Fundraising for charity football matches
Interaction with audiences in radio broadcasts
Tracking students returning to secondary education using surveys
Providing automated responses regarding drug authenticity
Communication with microfinance clients about their loans
Allowing people to report human rights violations or other incidents
Empowering local communities to express and convey their opinions
Pakistan
Aiding blogging groups in circumventing government reporting restrictions
Portugal
Keeping medical students informed of legal and other relevant issues
Informing students about academic associations
Creating an SMS newsletter for musical events
Kenya
Peace building and conflict management
Monitoring of communicable diseases and public health
Disseminating information about dairy farming and disease control
Provision of advice and information about paper recycling
Supporting chlorine use research in rural communities
As part of an anti-corruption information toolkit
Communicating with communities in video documentaries
Informing residents about free services, clinics and information sessions
Mapping incidents relating to conservation in rural areas
As a neighbourhood watch alerts system
Placing local information from SMS messages on village noticeboards
Communicating with dispersed communities and individuals from conflicts
Algeria
Keeping people up-to-date with cultural theatre events
Making weekend homework fun by providing questions and alerts about school events
Afghanistan
Updating fieldworkers with security alerts
Liaising with staff in emergencies
Communicating information about food availability
Addition of SMS outreach to a human development program
Interaction on youth radio programmes
Providing information and feedback for teacher training
Coordinating complex distribution lists in emergencies
Assisting with election monitoring
Organising vote tabulation research
Broadcasting safety information to our NGO community
Informing municipalities of principal concerns
Providing text-in opportunities for radio listeners, keeping records of messages that have been sent in
Conducting polls and coordinating information
Campaign management
Tanzania
Capturing and exchanging field-based agricultural information
For tracing patients who fail clinic attendance and to give patients reminders
An update tool for water and sanitation mapping, as a community question and answers service
Providing better feedback on radio programs
Aceh
Informing several hundred small farmers of changing coffee prices
Colombia
Enabling a field-based research project
Uganda
Aiding community-based health care for rural communities
Assisting Rotary Club administration and outreach
Distribute sports information for schools and clubs
Coordinating communication with pastors and field workers in churches and centres
Sending weekly updates to farmers and agricultural practitioners
Helping participants of HIV/AIDS programs
Canada
Promoting self-sufficiency for disadvantaged groups
Connecting needy people with self help groups
Providing immediate awareness of security threats using alerts
Keeping in touch with teachers on international workshops
Scheduling response volunteers quickly and effectively
Launching outreach campaigns to identify innovations in agriculture
Distributing "thoughts for the day"
Piloting SMS in international development projects
Creating a mobile survey of youth activists
Support lifelong learning in a farmers initiative
Exploring ways of interacting with church congregations
Surveys for a research study on student procrastination behavior
Providing public health warnings and notices for youth
Connecting rural students to school services
Sri Lanka
Providing support for the local gay community
Community assistance messaging as part of an e-Society initiative
Providing local market and weather information for fishing and farming
Communicating with students as part of scientific plenary sessions and discussions
Evaluating government information mechanisms
Nigeria
Monitoring the presidential elections in 2007
Environmental protection and awareness
Communications between rural NGOs via a central NGO
Village phone and community development advocacy among youth and women
Disseminating HIV/AIDS information
Communicating with entrepreneurs and business associations
Sending farming market data, product prices and planting advice
Providing breaking news about Nigerian universities and education
Broadcasting research grants, fellowships and scholarship alerts
Keeping in touch with members to help solve community-based problems
Raising awareness around blood donation programs
India
Helping to build a support base for work with children in Hyderabad
Coordinating self-help groups
Raising awareness about energy usage
Tracking and alerting teams about immunization status of children and expectant mothers
Sending information about landslides or other disasters to travelling pilgrims
Informing civil societies and officers about government policy initiatives
HIV/AIDS campaigning
Communicating with parents about transportation schedules, last minute changes and events
Providing information services for rural education, employability and health programs
Headline delivery of news tagged by an issue or geographic location
Conveying information regarding usage of local development funds
Keeping local ambulance crews updated
Interaction within community radio programs
Collecting field data
Providing information to patients on eye diseases, reminders, treatment, medications
Mexico
Monitoring elections
Reader subscriptions for health and hygiene tips
Keeping in touch with members of religious communities
Chile
Citizen polling and mobilization for social movements/political parties
Improve livelihoods of rural communities in southern Chile
Encouraging people to support charitable causes
Sending details of special appeals and alerts to supporters
Australia
Assisting a nonprofit, education-based membership organization
Plotting live emergency information via GPS
Educating others about Type I Diabetes
Assisting indigenous people with health issues
Coordinating legal advice and support programs
Keeping in touch with members
Liaising with new supporters and mobilizing supporter bases
Informing consumers about organizational changes
Keeping in contact with program residents
Organizing staff communication
Exploring interaction between a video artist and their viewers
Managing SMS updates from vending machines
Australia
Evaluating the potential of mobile government services
Keeping in touch with volunteers
Informing congregations about services and their content
Organising committees and providing quick advice about schedule or program changes
Creating polls on community radio
Creating services for the indigenous community who do not have computers
Sending health messages to remote populations
Integrating with local telephone-based radio initiatives
Malawi
Coordinating health care workers and collecting data in the field
Linking home-based care volunteers and hospital facilities
Communicating with students and providing educational information
Philippines
Coordinating official election monitors during the 2007 national election
Informing small indigenous farmers of fluctuating vegetable prices
Monitoring complaints of international migrant workers
Updating students about classes, events and assignment information
Communication within micro-crop loan programs
As part of the development of community-based web services
Keeping track of international student locations during a research study
Integrating with other human rights information provision
Promoting unknown youth amateur artists
Updating our network of women community leaders and monitoring government response to their needs
Assisting with patient welfare such as appointment reminders
Distributing maritime safety information to stakeholders
Faroe Islands
Communicating community events for groups in church congregations
Singapore
Surveying students at a Singapore university
To distribute church information to supporters and worshippers
Providing updates about bus arrival times and weather information
Assisting communication in social entrepreneurship schemes
Creating a survey about the use of donation funds
Keeping in touch with other members when travelling in sensitive or remote areas
Data collection and information dissemination
Guatemala
Empowering political activists
Botswana
Coordinating a blood donation program
Enhancing communication within a CBNRM project
Distributing environmental and agricultural statistics
Networking issues around resource utilization and conflict
Benin
Sending health alerts to young people concerning HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria
To communicate with delegates at a BarCamp meeting
To set up a service so those who leave the country can get in touch with their parents
Assisting with education programmes
Informing field staff in emergencies
Confirming attendance at meetings
Maintaining contact with members
Building a network of midwives and wise women who can perform breast cancer tests
Senegal
Improving communications between the field and head office
Training and working with parents in dispersed population groups
Informing citizens about social activities, anti-corruption and human rights issues
Connecting with NGOs in other nations
Coordinating front line extension agents
Disseminating agricultural and livelihoods related information to rural farmers and other beneficiaries
Zimbabwe
Human rights violation reporting and general news dissemination
Aiding NGOs in communicating with their field officers
Supporting projects for HIV/AIDS awareness and terminal illness
Exploring use for a community managed currency system
Communicating with supporters about upcoming cultural and social events
Ukraine
Promoting human rights and advocacy
Assisting communication with TB patients in a support group
Sending short updates about news and events in church diocese
Promoting telecenters so users can participate in online forums
Chats, workshops, seminars and computer training
Azerbaijan
Supporting democracy and human rights issues
Encouraging youth participation and support in electoral processes
Keeping staff informed and up-to-date while in the field
Providing information about new media program development
Laos
Sending agricultural prices and information to poor farmers
Ireland
Conducting interactive surveys for an Irish schools network
Collecting petitions and notifying members about events
Israel
Providing security alerts to fieldworkers
Czech Republic
Sending emergency alerts to embassy staff
India
Lobbying to encourage governments to ratify arms trading treaty
United Kingdom
Helping a school with student communications
Assisting a local scout association
Developing anytime, anywhere learning experiences for children
For radio projects to allow listeners to send and receive messages
Advertising events and activities, coordinating volunteers
Organising weekly cultural programmes within a commmunity
Advising youth on addiction problems
Keeping in contact with news reporters in local areas
Coordinating communication between students and young volunteers
Mobilizing volunteers to get involved with community action and social justice projects
Contacting parents quickly in school emergencies
Recruiting volunteers to help with food preparation and serving in kitchens
Sending location and menus of mobile catering vans for people who are homeless
Pakistan
Lobbying to encourage government to ratify arms trade treaty
Sending thank you notifications to donors
Spreading public health messages in rural areas
Disseminating information about disabilities to members
Communications in research, awareness raising, legal advocacy, crisis intervention, training
Monitoring civil unrest and providing news updates
Nurses in rural areas communicating with doctors in the cities
Sending and receiving messages during community radio programs
Distributing news of deaths of members to the community
Raising awareness of a polio campaign
Austria
Communication in regional or national disasters
Belgium
Distribute educational opportunities and projects to teachers
Contacting campaign members and getting feedback
Communication with partners who do not have regular email access
Alternative method of communication for emergency situations
Organising sports events
Bahrain
Communicating with friends and officials across the region
To feed SMS updates into a wiki
Bermuda
Texting supporters to inform them of upcoming community events
Supporting youth and peer mentoring program
Keeping residents informed about important information and events
Congo, The Democratic Republic of
Training human rights defenders
Notifying donors, volunteers and partners about specific projects
Soliciting viewer feedback for HIV/AIDs television show
To gather citizen reports of violence as part of a Ushahidi implementation
Congo
Informing readers about cultural events and asking their opinions
Cote d'Ivoire
Broadcasting messages to 10 000 observers
Reducing the cost of communications with member organizations
Assisting with health education
China
Follow-up to a radio program
Management of health requests from pamphlets
Cyprus
To follow-up with patients after appointments
Develop an audience relationship with radio broadcasts
Germany
Connecting with sponsors and providing news updates
Using SMS to interact with and provide synthesis for video and audio
Evaluating for fire brigade use
Supporting “Empowerment for Female Older Caregivers” program
Encouraging volunteers to support students
Communicating with our international partners
Visitors choosing their favourite open space media
Assisting with distribution of videos to phones
Denmark
Contacting supporters and members
Encouraging audience interaction in street visual artist show
Quickly contacting scouts in activities
Meeting preparation and communication
Student enrolment
“Connecting with each other when internet is too expensive”
Promotion of family medicine
For a special technology night project
Educational IT programs and library communications to students
For arranging volunteers, fundraising, training, events and sponsorship
Keeping in contact with volunteers, especially at night and in bad weather
Notifying members and interested parties about debate nights and lectures
Cultural events, social connections and networking for childrens facilities
Administration of volunteers
Informing members of fasting
Providing updates of developments in an alliance and arranging group meetings
Communicating with students
Providing a link to a website for Diabetes II patients
Keeping in touch with church members
Ecuador
Observation of rural medical trainees
Facilitating disaster communications across multiple agencies
Using surveys with international radio partners
Run surveys among rural healthcare workers and radio listeners
Egypt
Distribution of rapid messages regarding human rights violations
Allowing women to report sexual harassment on the street
Encouraging student interaction with an online university
Providing information about human rights education events
New ways of developing media
Ethiopia
Sharing ideas and information about human rights conditions
Supporting communication of business associations and local market prices
Distributing weather information for various ministries working with the FAO
Programme Monitoring in the Field using SMS and communications through triggered events
Share update of volunteer work, activities and whereabouts of volunteers across the nation
Finland
Investigating how it could be used as data collection for forecasting tools
Using with students for a study project
Fiji
Weather bulletins to be broadcast for latest weather information
France
Sending malnutrition and health data to international offices
Keeping communities in touch with their families and informed about community events
Scientific research and experimentation on the publicity of policy tools
Monitoring nutrition and food markets
Creating a list for global agricultural commodity prices
Extending the network of people benefitting from social entrepreneurships and growing support
Communicating with doctors for an international clinical oriented project
Experimentation with new forms of media and keeping members informed
Announcing key events during campaigns
Exchanging information between remote databases in different countries
Georgia
Outreach and communication with alumni, students, faculty and staff
Greece
Helping students set up database applications and manage surveys
Automating user requests within embedded systems
Guyana
Encouraging audience interaction in radio broadcasts
Hong Kong
Encouraging audience interaction in radio broadcasts
Widening participation in voter registration campaign
Improving data collection and communication in research
Honduras
Monitoring polls and elections
Haiti
Providing security or hurricane alerts
Getting quality feed back and handling check-ups on village-scale hydro and energy systems
Indonesia
For agricultural quiz and information talk shows
Providing notification of current progress of national developments
coordinating community actions and events
Distributing best practice guides for shrimp farming
Sharing information about local prices of commodities
Mobilizing support and raising awareness about negative impacts of debt dependency
Notifying communities of local water issues as they arise
Communicating with dispersed program team members
Notifying parents of student absence from schools
Election monitoring and reporting
Keeping in touch with local gay community members
Isle of Man
Coordinating protests and spreading news fast among particular social groups
Iraq
Administering surveys to populations living in remote and hostile regions
Emergencies mobilization
Disemminating news and information among local/bordering media organisations
Iran
Organizing and publicizing cultural events such as lectures, art exhibitions
Supporting communications with institutionalized children
Italy
Providing information about immigration legal developments, advice, rights and duties
Coordination of aid to animals
Sending and receiving information about human rights abuses
Providing timely agrometeorological and early warning information in a climate change project
Jamaica
Providing local alerts in crime-infested areas
Coordination of staff communication in a summer camp
Jordan
Using surveys
Japan
Keeping in contact with members
Kyrgyzstan
In an advocacy campaign for protecting land rights
Raising awareness of public campaigns
United Arab Emirates
Keeping in touch with students
Cambodia
Integrating SMS into our existing Khmer-language, social radio programs
Reporting of landmine victims
Collecting and disseminating market information
Keeping in contact with staff when travelling to remote areas
Comoros
Health and emergency alerts including status of active volcano
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Networking with members
Madagascar
Improving communications between international offices and field staff
Real-time reporting of cyclone damage or other emergency situations
Informing producers about prices of some products on the international market
To gather citizen reports of violence as part of a Ushahidi implementation
Mali
Disseminating information about networks and their activities
Increasing interaction in radio activities
Mongolia
Sending weather information to farmers with no access to tv or the internet
Disseminating public health information
Mauritius
Informing residents of free internet training sessions in remote areas
Providing pest and disease control alerts to farmers
Radio listeners sending in their opinions and votes
Maldives
Radio listeners sending in their opinions and votes
Niger
Communications as part of a multi-year assistance program
Rural literacy project
Transparency and anti-corruption campaign
Sharing market data with the public and authorities
Nicaragua
Sending agricultural information to stakeholders in rural areas
Netherlands
Distributing source water and sanitation news
Building a network of 'Sport for Change' members, activities and campaigns
Improving communication in rural development projects
Norway
Providing traffic and public transport information
Nepal
Broadcasting security updates and timely information to staff
Interaction in a youth-based radio program
Staying in touch with telecentre operatives throughout the nation
New Zealand
As a prayer network with supporters across the nation
Engage and mobilize supporters and friends and their friends
Peru
Communicating product prices and local market information
Improving coordination between administrative and operative roles
Puerto Rico
Keeping in touch with members
Romania
Sending messages about dental courses and exams
Russia
Sending alerts about exams to students who do not have computers
Rwanda
As a mobile devices backbone to support content creation and sharing
For farmers marketing products, services and guidance on markets data
Sudan
Warning expatriates about security issues
Communication and outreach with our supporters
Sweden
Providing social services information and support
Sending announcements and reminders about youth activities
Sierra Leone
To assist with ideas around micro-learning/mobile education
Somalia
Sharing information and ideas with partners in other international organizations
Swaziland
Send messages to all physicians in the country about continuing education
Thailand
Using in to communicate during a conference
Organizing meetings and demonstrations
Tunisia
Updating members about new features of the organization
Sending emergency alerts to embassy staff and expatriates
Coordinating scouts activities and alerts
Turkey
Engaging in mobile fundraising
Organizing volunteers for disasters especially earthquakes
Spreading messages of love amongst the community
Trinidad and Tobago
Texting to screen for a community billboard
Keeping present and past students updated with information
Sending and receiving comments from community stakeholders
Taiwan
Press releases for human rights action and policy adovacy
Uruguay
Using as part of mobile activism teaching
Venezuela
Monitoring elections and data collection
Vietnam
Sending messages to authorities of rural communities in case of cyclone or flooding
Connecting with volunteers on monthly activities
Zambia
Creating an information center for community access to radio
Providing agricultural information for small scale farmers
Keeping in touch with teachers, students and government representatives
