SMS: The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated A colleague of mine, Ronda Zelezny-Green of GSMA, recently tweeted the following. Apparently, Zambia telecom Airtel Zambia announced that they …
SMS Support Networks to improve resiliency for ‘at-risk’ learners: a quick project outline
Background: ‘At-risk’ and technological interventions A friend and I have been having a back and forth about improving completion rates of ‘at-risk’ students in both secondary schools and in the …
MobiMOOC Week 3: ICT4D Activities, Presentations, Feedback
In keeping with the intoxicating open and democratic spirit in which Inge de Waard has crafted the MobiMOOC course this year (polling on topics, etc.), I have decided to try …
SMS Smart Texting: Routing Logic and Trigger Events for Mobile Academic Communities in East Africa
SMS rule routing: Smart Texting Another useful bit of information on Mobile Active was their How To Set up an SMS System guide, that is proving very helpful in developing …
mLearning and History in Higher Education in Tanzania (Part 6): History, national identity, and links between mlearning and ICT4D
This part of this series of posts on mobile learning in History in higher education in Tanzania explores, what I think are, the key benefits that this research could have …
Ushahidi and Crowdmapping: A project from #mobimooc
This is a follow up to the previous post about potentially using Ushahidi and Frontline SMS (and maybe some open source CMS, Drupal, WordPress, etc.) for bridging communities of interest …
SMS, higher education, data distribution, and developing nations
This is in keeping with the #MobiMOOC conversations circulating at impressive rates as per the discussions for the course, but I was thinking a bit about a particular thread of …