FrontlineSMS Listed at Number 47 in the Global Journal’s “Top 100 Best NGOs”
FrontlineSMS is excited and honoured to be featured in The Global Journal’s list of Top 100 Best NGOs, which was announced earlier this week. It is fantastic to receive this acknowledgement for the important role FrontlineSMS is playing in leveraging mobile technology to support social change across the world. We have lots planned for 2012, and so this announcement is... Read More
The Huffington Post: “Haiti Earthquake 2 Years Later: Rape Survivors Support Abuse Victims In Displacement Camps”
FrontlineSMS was featured in an article from The Huffington Post about sexual violence in displacement camps in Haiti, where almost half a million people are living after the 2010 eartquake. The full article can be found here. “‘Since the earthquake, Haitian women and girls in the displacement camps have faced an epidemic of rape. They have lived without adequate... Read More
DevEx: “Three trends to watch in international development for 2012″
FrontlineSMS was featured in an article from DevEx this week, as part of a piece on the trends to watch in international development for 2012. You can find an extract of the article below, and the full piece can be found here. “As the world adjusts to seven billion people, and begins its creep toward eight billion, doing more with less will become increasingly important. Continuing... Read More
NYT: “A Quest for Hybrid Companies That Profit, but Can Tap Charity”
FrontlineSMS was featured in an article in the New York Times this week! You can find an extract of the article below, and the full piece can be found on the New York Times website here. “A new type of company intended to put social goals ahead of making profits is taking root around the country, as more states adopt laws to bridge the divide between nonprofits and businesses… Charities... Read More
FrontlineSMS 2011 Curry Stone Design Prize Winners
FrontlineSMS is excited to announce that we have been awarded the Curry Stone Design Prize, a prestigious award which recognizes the valuable contributions of social design pioneers across the world. The award “was created in the belief that designers can be an instrumental force for improving people’s lives and the state of the world”. The FrontlineSMS team... Read More
“Africa’s quiet digital revolution” FrontlineSMS:Radio featured on BBC
FrontlineSMS:Radio was recently featured in an article written by Jane Wakefield for the BBC’s technology page. Below is an extract and you can find the full article here. “For many in Africa, getting information still comes from a very low-tech device – the radio. Ken Banks hopes to unite the power of radio with his already well-known FrontLineSMS, a text service that has... Read More
Wired: Data could fix philanthrophy’s accountability problem
Wired article, featuring FrontlineSMS FrontlineSMS recently attended an event called hosted by the Indigo Trust, the Institute for Philanthropy and the Omidyar Network – called ‘The Power of Information: New Technologies for Philanthropy and Development’. Wired wrote a follow up piece on a panel at this event, which featured FrontlineSMS and our founder Ken Banks,... Read More
ReliefWeb: Using text messaging as weapon in malaria war in Cambodia
Goggle Earth used to map those diagnosed with Malaria. Picture: Malaria Consortium ReliefWeb have recently reported on FrontlineSMS being used to help to contain the spread of malaria in Cambodia. This story has also received coverage from IRIN, the news service of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The FrontlineSMS blog featured a guest post... Read More
allAfrica.com: Climate Information Alerts Boost Poor Farmers in Zambia
allAfrica.com has published a guest post today, by Riedner Mumbi and Polly Ghazi, about the work of RANET (Radio and Internet for the Communication of Hydro-Meteorological Information), who are considering use of FrontlineSMS in Zambia. Below is an extract of the post. To read the full post visit allAfrica.com. “As climate change intensifies, bringing more extreme weather,... Read More
The FrontlineSMS message reaches new audiences
Photo credit: Ken Banks, kiwanja.net It has been an exciting few days for FrontlineSMS in terms of media recognition for the work we do. Recent coverage of FrontlineSMS has included an article in Wired magazine, a guest opinion piece in CNN World, and an interview with FrontlineSMS founder, Ken Banks, in National Geographic Traveler magazine too. As a result of all this attention... Read More
