FrontlineSMS in the Media
FrontlineSMS has been featured in a number of mainstream media and publications:
ReliefWeb: Using text messaging as a weapon in malaria war in Cambodia- allAfrica: Climate Information Alerts Boost Poor Farmers in Zambia
- National Geographic Traveler: Leapfrogging the Internet
- Wired Magazine: Look Ma, No Internet! Free Software Gives Text-Messaging New Reach
- CNN: The reluctant innovator
- Fast Company: US State Department Is Trying To Make A Thousand Ushahidis Bloom
- Ashoka: Acknowledging changemakers: Ken Banks awarded Ashoka Fellowship
- The Economist: Mobile Services in Poor Countries: Not Just Talk
- Daily Nation: Next on Google Maps: Hospitals, roads and kiosks of Korogocho slum
- NDItech: On the Front Lines with FrontlineSMS
- We Magazine: Technology for Transparency – SMS Helping Protect Children Against Violence
- New York Times: A Quest for Hybrid Companies That Profit, But Can Tap Charity
Social media
FrontlineSMS actively engages with users on our social media sites: Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn and Wikipedia.
Sample tweets
Always nice when someone joins the online community and says “I have been a FrontlineSMS user for a couple of years”. #welcome
R/T @phat_controller Plan International Benin track/respond to violence against children using #Ushahidi #FrontlineSMS. bit.ly/pDYVa0
The audience at the #m4d @RoyalAfricanSoc event seem to love the photos of people doing the \o/ logo bit.ly/qpsNuQ
SMS and radio remain powerful tools for political change @laurawhudson on FrontlineSMS & @smsradio at #polis11 bit.ly/iAGCIO
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