"facilitating secure financial services transactions through SMS (short messaging service, or text messaging)", and other
"txteagle is a service that enables mobile phone subscribers to earn money and accumulate savings by completing simple micro-tasks for large corporate clients. Originally conceived as a mechanism to compensate rural Kenyan nurses, txteagle is now on track to becoming one of Africa's largest employers."
"The service uses a straightforward REST API hosted on Google’s Java AppEngine and makes UNDATA sets easily queryable from any application. Currently we have 62 datasets from the World Health organization on line and we’ll add more over time."
An independent, nonprofit policy research organization that is dedicated to reducing global poverty and inequality and to making globalization work for the poor. Ranked #15 think tank acc. to Foreign Policy. A good video introduction to what they do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsxgsgmz4Z8&feature=player_embedded
a free and open-source framework for dynamic data collection, logistics coordination and communication, leveraging basic short message service (SMS) mobile phone technology.
Various tutorials on topics including gzip, caching, code optimization, etc.
"The Global Knowledge Based Development Week"
"We want to link the world's poor to the financial grid"
ECLAC's (CEPAL) Information Society Program (for Latin America)
"Cerberus is a Continuous Builder software. Cerberus could be periodically run from scheduler and check if application tests are broken. If it happens then Cerberus will send notification to developers. Cerberus perfectly works both on Windows and *nix pl
Excellent guide, for internal use at the NY public library, to making standards-compliant web sites with XHTML and CSS.
"A practical guide to planning and building a low-cost telecommunications infrastructure."