Dustyn Winder

Google SMS to serve needs of poor in Uganda

From the Google blog:

Today is a big day for the Google Africa team for several reasons. We're announcing an exciting partnership between MTN Uganda, the Grameen Foundation and Google, along with the launch of Google SMS in Uganda. This launch makes available the first suite of applications resulting from an endeavor initiated by Grameen Foundation called "AppLab" (Application Laboratory) which began over a year ago. AppLab is designed to develop mobile applications that serve the needs of poor and other vulnerable individuals and communities, most of whom have limited access to information and communications technology.

Even though this news is now over a month old, it's still great news for the future incarnations of the Jazz for Justice Project or whatever it will be called. I won't get into details about what those future plans are at this juncture, but I'll definitely be writing a lot about it in the coming months.

So, there you have it. Old news, but still worthy of the inaugural post on the new dswinder.com.

I really encourage you to read the entire article if you haven't already.