MOBILE SOCIAL WORK
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Category Archives: Africa & Internationalization
How To Bring Mobile Internet To Rural Underserved Areas In Africa – BRCK [VIDEO]
What is the BRCK? And how can it bring mobile internet to rural underserved areas in Africa or elsewhere. BRCK is a kickstarter project from Ushahidi – „a non-profit technology … Continue reading
Mobile Messages To Empower Mothers – MAMA – The Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action [VIDEO][INFOGRAPHIC]
As it is Mother’s Day today it could be a good idea to have a look at the link between mobiles, mothers and social issues. In June 2012 we already … Continue reading
What ICT Competency Social Workers Should Have? – Get inspired by the UNESCO Framework for Teachers [Video]
UNESCO published an ICT Competency Framework for Teachers which intends „to inform educational policy makers, teacher-educators, providers of professional learning and working teachers on the role of ICT in educational … Continue reading
How mobile phones promote gender equality and empower women in Africa and Asia
Ronda Zelezny-Green, PhD student exploring links between gender, learning and mobiles in the ICT4D collective at Royal Holloway, University of London, posted in theguadian’s Global Development Professionals Network about how … Continue reading
Africa: Using Mobile Apps to Spur Social Change – allAfrica.com
by Arao Amen, http://m.allafrica.com Want to report a problem to an elected official in your community? There is a mobile application, or “app,” for that. Want to bring attention to a … Continue reading
Mobile Phones and 21st Century Poverty Alleviation | NewAmerica.net
by Eric Tyler, http://assets.newamerica.net If there could be a competition for the technology device with the fastest adoption in the developing world, mobile phones far and away would take first place. … Continue reading
Implicating mobile phones in violence against women: What’s gender got to do with it? | GenderIT.org
This paper gives an analysis of women and men’s differential access and use of the mobile phone and how through it gender stereotypes are reinforced. During a four year study … Continue reading
SMS for disease control in developing countries: a systematic review of mobile health applications.
Abstract Mobile phones provide a low cost method of addressing certain health system needs in developing countries. We examined SMS-supported interventions for prevention, surveillance, management and treatment compliance of communicable … Continue reading
Making smart phones for women redefining the user experience – GSMA mWomen Design Challenge
The objective of The GSMA mWomen Design Challenge: Redefining the User Experience is to meet the needs of resource-poor women by improving the smartphone user experience. Designers, programmers and innovators … Continue reading
