SMS
When the Government Does Technology
So the U.S. Chief Technology Officer today announced a "free mobile health service for pregnant women and new mothers." The system, text4baby, allows moms to receive text messages about baby health on their phones.
DataDyne and the DatAgro project in Infoweek Chile
DataDyne.org and the DatAgro project are profiled in the online magazine Infoweek that follows techonology, innovation and business in Chile. They did a nice job of capturing what makes DataDyne.org unique in our approach to mobile technology.
DatAgro Project featured on MobileActive.org
"At a small agrarian cooperative in Chile, farmers with little access
to the internet have a new source of farming information: text
messaging.
The messages, a combination of national and international news and
farming information about topics like weather and pricing, are part of
a project called DatAgro, which aims to bring relevant farming information to rural populations that have little access to computers."
Spotted in the Lagos airport
While spending my 6 hour layover in the airport of Lagos, Nigeria, I noticed numerous ads like the one pictured. More proof that Google gets it: the mobile phone is the computer for the world, and SMS is the dominant non-voice communications medium, and SMS needs things like search.
Invertia: DatAgro Beta Test Launched in Chile
SMS Spanish language piece:
http://ar.invertia.com/noticias/noticia.aspx?idNoticia=200904082126_INV_77980790
Google (machine) translation:
Transmedia reports on DataDyne's DatAgro text messaging project in Chile
In this Spanish language piece from Chile, Transmedia describes how farmers in the Coopeumo cooperative will be receiving SMS messages sent using the MIP (Mobile Information Project) technology being developed by DataDyne as part of the DatAgro project, with the technology funded by Knight Foundation.
