Data Collection, Communication, and Campaigning Tools: Logic and Antecedents
Reposting this here from Panoply Digital so a bit more ICT4D related than the norm. This post is inspired an upcoming workshop we are running in Washington, D.C., along with additional installments in Phnom Penh, Lagos, and Caracas in the coming months. All of these workshops revolve around the use of free or inexpensive tools and technologies […]
Reversing the flow from the developing to the developed world: mobile learning lessons
Posting this here, but it originally appeared on the Panoply Digital website. The ICT4D field is proving mature enough in some instances to reverse the flow of informal technology transfer from developed to developing, so much so that it is forcing, at least in my mind, a reconsideration of the term developed and developing. The […]
SMS Environments for Learning: Flows and mobile learning
I was writing a bit in a previous post about possible SMS applications specifically geared towards formalized learning (like at the university level), how they might be structured, and what range of learning activities they might encompass. It seems like I wasn’t the only one with this thought in mind. That is encouraging. SMS still […]
Creating SMS structures for informal/formal learning tracks: mlearning
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 will be rolling out a service which will allow users to access their Facebook accounts on their mobile phones without the need to have an active […]
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 early years of university study. By ‘at-risk’ in this scenario, I am referring to (especially in regards to the university study), students who show poor […]
Why texting works: the case for SMS intervention
I thought this was a good infographic for presenting a counter-argument to the commonly held belief that texting is symptomatic of a diminishing sociability in society. This can be lumped into the whole Facebook/Twitter/etc. is ruining the fabric of our social relationships by embedding our attention in technology. In this instance, and as this infographic […]
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 some pragmatic processes for setting up SMS systems that might serve academics. I am speaking specifically of setting up mobile communities of practice for historians […]