Thinking Outside the Phone

In today’s installment of our special “Mobile Message” series, Eric Blantz from Inveneo and Richard Anderson from the University of Washington explain how they apply a mix of mobile phones and other technologies to help solve a critical yet common drug supply problem throughout the developing world.

In today’s installment of our special “Mobile Message” series, Eric Blantz from Inveneo and Richard Anderson from the University of Washington explain how they apply a mix of mobile phones and other technologies to help solve a critical yet common drug supply problem throughout the developing world.

Mobile Message is a series of blog posts about how mobile phones are being used throughout the world to improve, enrich, and empower billions of lives...SMS’s reach and reliability, combined with its popularity among users, make it particularly attractive to those working on applications for the developing world, where Internet and smart phones are not yet widely available or affordable.

Open source SMS messaging platforms – RapidSMS, FrontlineSMS and others – and rapidly falling prices are fueling an SMS innovation explosion and fostering new thinking about how SMS can be leveraged for non-mobile applications...