Topic “africa”
New report on mobile services in East Africa
A new report by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) on mobile applications in East Africa examines the mobile landscape and applications offered – from health to finance and governance – the barriers to delivery, and approaches to successfully scaling-up applications beyond the pilot stage.
Partners
Working together with organisations is a very important way for us to fulfil our mission of empowering African citizens by unleashing the potential of mobile telephony to provide and collect information, increase awareness and knowledge levels, enhance transparency and strengthen advocacy.
Facts and figures
In 2008 there were approximately 370 million mobile subscribers in Sub-Saharan Africa. That's 4 out of 10 Africans. In 2010 it is expected that 6 out of 10 Africans will have a mobile phone. Mobile phone subscriptions levels are rising rapidly all over the world. Since 2000 the number of subscribers has almost tripled, rising from around 720 million to over 2 billion. The spread of mobile phones has been most rapid in those regions where usage was previously limited. Therefore we believe that mobile telephony is providing all the ingredients to bridge the digital divided.
Projects
Any successful communication depends on a thorough understanding of target audiences and participants. TTC researches participant information using mobile telephone data and once analyzed, combines this with other information for advocacy and behavioral change communication using a diverse set of mass-campaign channels including mobile phones, radio, and television, internet and news papers.
Home
Text to Change (TTC) is a non-profit organization, founded in 2007. It uses state of the art mobile phone technology to collect and disseminate health information. TTC has been one of the pioneers in using mobile phones for health monitoring and advocacy in Uganda reaching out to the general public at a large scale. TTC works demand driven and sets up complete programs with local and international partners. The aim of TTC is to make life saving knowledge easily available to the general public and especially to community and family level caregivers.
