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Mobile Health Without Borders - To expose you to the breadth of activity and opportunity, each class will consist of multiple short presentations from renowned experts. Class discussions about these presentations will also take place online. In the era of expansive and ever-expanding access to mobile technology, ideas can be more readily shared and solutions can more readily reach patients in need, wherever they are. We are more MORE
Mobile Internet Skills Training Toolkit - Mobile phones are much more than just a tool for making calls.Increasingly they are the primary way people across the world access the internet. Whilst the internet can provide a wide range of benefits to the user, it requires specific skills and knowledge to use a mobile phone effectively. This means that people who lack the skills and understanding are unable to access these life-enhancing MORE
Mobile Monday - MobileMonday™ (MoMo) is an open community platform fostering brand neutral cooperation and cross-border business opportunities through live networking events to demo products, share ideas, and discuss trends from both local and global markets. Originating in Helsinki, Finland in 2000, activities are organized by some 300 dedicated volunteers from around the world, and Mobile Monday has become an MORE
Mobile Money for Health Case Study Compendium - Globally, 2.5 billion people are “unbanked,” lacking access to formal financial services. As a result, roughly one third of the world’s population is forced to rely on cash transactions or informal financial systems, which can often be unsafe, inconvenient, and expensive. Among the unbanked, however, a billion have access to a mobile phone, and mobile-based financial services are MORE
Mobile Money for Health white paper - Mobile money enables funds to be deposited, transferred, and withdrawn electronically through mobile phone accounts. Fueled by the success of Kenya’s M-Pesa mobile payment platform, mobile money is a rapidly growing alternative to cash in developing countries. Whereas mobile money services have been launched in more than 70 countries with the majority of current deployments in sub-Saharan MORE
Mobile Phones are Transforming Africa - DRIVE a few miles from the centre of Accra, the capital of Ghana, into the neat rows of houses that surround it and the paved roads disappear almost as quickly as the phone lines. Yet this has not dented the ambitions of Kwami Williams, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who is building a business processing moringa trees and exporting the resulting tea and cosmetic oils MORE
Mobile Technology Handbook - This handbook is a comprehensive resource for getting started with mobile data collection. It provides guidance on how to develop a mobile data collection strategy, how to compare and select mobile platforms, and case studies on how mobile technology has been used for data collection in development programs. You can use the handbook as a reference or make it the foundation for a workshop to spread MORE
Mobile Technology in Support of Frontline Health Workers: A comprehensive overview of the landscape, knowledge gaps and future directions - Mobile Technology in Support of Frontline Health Workers: A comprehensive overview of the landscape, knowledge gaps and future directions. Mobile health (mHealth) interventions are rapidly gaining popularity for their potential to improve public health, and many developing countries see them as an important resource for frontline health workers MORE
MobileActive Google Group - Focused on discussions and information about how mobile technology around the world is used for social development and social change. Note that the MobileActive.org website is no longer live. MORE
Mobiles for Quality Improvement Pilot in Uganda - SHOPS‘ partners Abt Associates, Jhpiego, and Marie Stopes International (MSI), collaborated in a mobile learning and performance support pilot called Mobiles for Quality Improvement (m4QI) conducted in Uganda during the period September 2010–August 2011. The goal of m4QI was to demonstrate the potential for positive behavioral change in service delivery by reinforcing face-to-face induction MORE