USAID set mobile technology as a grand challenge for development work

USAID is an independent federal government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. Their work supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign policy objectives by supporting:

economic growth, agriculture and trade;
global health; and,
democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance.

USAID has set up Grand challenges which include [...]

Documentary film festival deals with Millennium Development Goals

Picture: Millennium International Documentary Film Festival
Tomorrow, June 12, marks the start of the second Millennium International Documentary Film Festival in Brussels. This week-long festival, supported by the United Nations, will show films that deal with different aspects of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
One of the festival’s main aims is to show the realities – the [...]

My Mobile My Life Case Competition

Topics: mLearning, mHealth or mBanking
Rules
Competition is open for everybody. You take part with a group or as an individual. You will choose one topic and produce a “solution” from cases described below. Only case solutions that are submitted in time and that fulfil the requirements will be evaluated. One group can take part with [...]

My Mobile My Life

Visit My Mobile My Life
Mobile Development has been started in our NING Community: Join and spread the word!
We will also have a lottery for our Facebook fans, which are members in MMMLife-NING. Winner will get cool product prizes!! There will also be case a competition for developers. More about these soon!
Don’t forget our Summer Workshop [...]

Twitter creator reveals Square mobile – pay device

Twitter creator Jack Dorsey Wednesday gave the first public demonstration of his hotly-anticipated latest venture — a device to allow credit card payments by cell phone — and revealed it would be given away for free.
Its too early to predict about the consequences but probably this application has enormous potentials and this is a big [...]