Video & Audio

Below is a sampling of FrontlineSMS in video and audio. You can see more on the video page on our community forum and on our FrontlineSMS YouTube channel. If you have videos of yourself using FrontlineSMS or showing the impact that it has had on your work, contact us. We’d love to share them.

FrontlineSMS Presentations

If you would like to invite FrontlineSMS Founder Ken Banks, CEOs Laura Walker Hudson and Sean Martin McDonald, or another member of the FrontlineSMS team to speak at an event you are organizing please email us at info@frontlinesms.com. You can find examples of FrontlineSMS presentations below.

Ken Banks, founder of FrontlineSMS, talking about mobile innovation and our work with mobile technology at Thinking Digital in the UK, May 2010:

Ken Banks speaking at #TDC10 from Codeworks Ltd on Vimeo.

FrontlineSMS Founder Ken Banks talking on mobile innovation to an audience at the National Geographic Society in Washington DC in June 2010:



FrontlineSMS CEO Laura Walker Hudson speaking about the strengths of mobile technology at the Power of Information: New Technologies for Philanthropy and Development conference in September 2011 :



FrontlineSMS CEO Laura Walker Hudson speaking about the use of technology in aid in March 2012 at ODI office in London:


About FrontlineSMS

Watch the 2011 Curry Stone Design Award winner profile video on FrontlineSMS:

See Amy O’Donnell, FrontlineSMS:Media Product Manager, talk about FrontlineSMS at the 2011 Mozilla Festival:



FrontlineSMS user videos

Watch how Community Links SMS Connect uses FrontlineSMS to connect stakeholders together in the system that delivers services to orphans and vulnerable children in Namibia.

[7 minutes 34 seconds] Look for FrontlineSMS at 2:18 minutes

See how Plan Benin uses FrontlineSMS for a texting and mapping system to report and track violence against children in Benin.

[2 minutes 15 seconds]

See how Mobile Networks and Citizen Journalists Empower Communities using FrontlineSMS to raise awareness and encourage fair practices in agriculture. The two videos below, produced by Internews, report on projects done in collaboration with International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and RuaiTV.

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FrontlineSMS audio

Listen to a podcast featuring Amy O’Donnell and Florence Scialom from FrontlineSMS, talking to Journalism.co.uk about how journalists are using FrontlineSMS.


FrontlineSMS is a kiwanja.net initiative