Cell Phones In Developing Countries

Cellphones are cheap, durable data terminals.

Idea: Cellphones for solders-style drive to collect used cellphones and donate them overseas.

Simple mobile-web-based tools that could help people?

• Agricultural information (per location)
  • Farmers almanac 2.0
  • "My tomatoes are wilting. What do I do?". What you can do with tools and resources available in your area.
  • Wiki?
  • Already a txt-based service like this. Grameen foundation in Uganda.
• Crowdsourced-crises info
  • http://ushahidi.com
  • http://twitter.com mashups?

Elsewhere

• The Economist: Telecoms in Emerging Markets. Podcast interview here.
• The UN used text-messaging as a bootstrapped food-stamp system for Iraqi refugees. "All the 130,000 Iraqi refugees currently receiving food aid from the agency in Syria have mobile phones."

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