Mobile phones


UReport Uganda is an initiative to do SMS-based polling among a large number of Ugandan citizens on different topics weekly.  The service boasts an impressive subscriber base of over 2,50,000 people as of Oct 2014.  While the base is large, the poll data on the website indicates that SMS polls are sent to a smaller subset of participants each week with responses ranging from 20-50% in the polls I reviewed. The website provides a word cloud on the basis of responses and it also provides charts in case the question of the week had multiple choice responses.  Samples of text […]

UReport Uganda






MobileActive.org: MobileActive.org connects people, organizations, and resources using mobile technology for social change.

New Stanford computing lab imagines the mobile-social future: Project on making the mobile phone social at Stanford.