WHAT THE WORLD IS SAYING ABOUT FRONTLINESMS.
THE ECONOMIST
“Cats, Mice and Handsets”
Back in September, protesters from many parts of the United States poured into the small town of Jena, Louisiana, to express their anger over the over-zealous prosecution (as they saw it) of six young African-Americans on charges of assault. Mobile-phone text messages played an important role in pulling in the crowd. This article looks at the use of mobile phones by activists, and profiles FrontlineSMS and its use in Pakistan.
Aid Worker Daily
“FrontlineSMS introduces FrontlineForms and changes the game for all of us”
My Heart's in Accra (Ethan Zuckerman)
“Ken Banks on FrontlineSMS”
The Guardian newspaper
“Free text messages save lives in Malawi”
ICT Update
“A program to reach many farmers”
BBC NEWS ONLINE
“Texts Monitor Nigerian Elections”
Anyone trying to rig or tamper with Saturday’s presidential elections in Nigeria could be caught out by a team of volunteers armed with mobile phones. The Network of Mobile Election Monitors (NMEM) will use SMS to feed back their observations to a central computer hub ... NMEM is using a free system called FrontlineSMS, developed by programmer Ken Banks, to keep track of all of the texts.
Corporate Council on Africa
“ICT Infrastructure”
FrontlineSMS Supporters Group
“A Facebook Group for People Who Believe in What FrontlineSMS Stands For”
Stanford Journal of African Studies
“And Then Came the Nigerian Elections”
Nokia Conversations
“FrontlineForms takes off with SMS”
PUBLIC RADIO INTERNATIONAL (PRI)
“Data collection via mobile phone”
A new tool available called FrontlineForms could help collect health, agricultural, and human rights data via a mobile phone network in many parts of the world. Ken Banks is the man behind one of the most interesting and useful mobile phone tools I've ever written about: FrontlineSMS. Ken jokingly and lovingly calls it "software with an attention deficit disorder."
BBC News Online
“Web tool overseas Afghan election”
Discovery Channel "Etherized" Blog
“FrontlineSMS 2.0”
Nokia Conversations
“Making the world a better place: Number 2”
White African
“FrontlineSMS (v2) is Reborn & Ready for Use”
Build it Kenny, and they will come...
“FrontlineSMS wins prestigious Tech Award”
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