White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood: Mum’s Tattoo Parlour at Glastonbury Festival
Our twenty-sixth guest post comes from the lovely James at the White Ribbon Alliance, who piloted FrontlineSMS in campaigning in a particularly innovative and fun bit of awareness-raising – offering free transfer tattoos at Glastonbury Festival… The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood is a coalition of individuals and organisations that campaign to make pregnancy and childbirth safe for all women and newborns. With members in 148... Read More
Newsletter: Competitions, videos, and the new version of FrontlineSMS
In case you missed it, here’s our inaugural user newsletter, reproduced in full for your reading pleasure. Sign up on the right to receive updates from us (no more than once a month). Welcome to our first ever user newsletter. We hope you find it useful – and don’t forget you can start your own discussions at our FrontlineSMS Community page! FrontlineSMS 1.6 released The new version of FrontlineSMS is out, packed with new features:... Read More
NEWS: "Mobiles in Malawi" project featured on CNN.com
Josh Nesbit’s Mobiles in Malawi project has been featured on the ‘Technology’ pages of the CNN.com website. Josh travelled to Namitete over the summer to install a text-based communications network using FrontlineSMS. Josh, who is about to return to Malawi, was interviewed along with kiwanja’s Ken Banks for the article, which can be read here Read More
NEWS: kiwanja.net and FrontlineSMS to feature on SHIFT Radio
The work of kiwanja.net, and specifically FrontlineSMS, will be featured on a special edition of SHIFT Radio on Friday 5th December. SHIFT Radio is an informal, lively internet radio channel hosted by Chris Melissinos. “Each week he talks about the latest in tech gadgets, interviews leaders in the video game and rich media industries and cuts up revolving guests, hosts and live callers”. Ken Banks was contacted by the station after... Read More
NEWS: Hewlett Foundation announces major kiwanja.net funding
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation have today announced a major grant in support of kiwanja’s ongoing activities. The grant, worth a total of $400,000 over two years, will see the ongoing support and development of FrontlineSMS, the creation of an MMS (multimedia messaging) version of the platform, FrontlineSMS outreach, the creation of a non-profit online text messaging aggregator, and the scaling of the nGOmobile competition The... Read More
NEWS: kiwanja.net and FrontlineSMS featured on Danish Radio
An interview given by Ken Banks earlier this year at the Supernova conference in San Francisco has just been aired on Danish Radio’s ‘Harddisken’ technology show. During the interview, Ken talks with Henrik Fohns about FrontlineSMS and the wider impact of mobile technology in the developing world. Parts of the actual interview remain in English, with added Danish translation and context. Since airing, dozens of requests to use... Read More
