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Contact us for general FrontlineSMS enquiries, or for further details on our work developing low-cost, appropriate technology solutions for the grassroots non-profit community.
DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS
Ken Banks originated the concept of FrontlineSMS in late spring 2005 in Willingham, Cambridgeshire. The concept was developed into a project proposal in partnership with Karen Hayes and Simon Hicks in Frome, Somerset. Funding partners were sought, and these came via Partnership Innovation Limited and Forensic Mobile Services, both based in Newbury, Berkshire. The system was designed in Cambridge and finally written in Forssa, Finland throughout August 2005. The new, revised version of FrontlineSMS was supported by the MacArthur Foundation, designed in California and coded by Masabi in London in 2008
Ken Banks
Founder, kiwanja.net
Original concept design and development, original programming, marketing and webmaster
Email: ken[dot]banks{at}kiwanja[dot]net
Karen Hayes and Simon Hicks
Hicks & Hayes Limited
Initial project management, concept development
John Logan and Gerry Cowan
Partnership Innovation Limited
Forensic Mobile Services
Project inception grantmakers
FrontlineSMS2.0 programming and design
Volunteer translators
Heng Du (Chinese)
Amine Taha (French)
Carlos Eduardo Genz (Portuguese)
Oscar Salazar (Spanish)
Tony Odek and Joseph Nganga (Swahili)