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An emerging generation of leaders and changemakers from all over the world are harnessing the power of online and mobile technology to bring about significant positive social change, most especially to the world’s poor with limited or no access to such technology. Examples abound such as Kiva, where in just over four years, have managed to raise $100 million in the form of microloans for entrepreneurs in developing countries (and most recently, to entrepreneurs based in the US); to organizations such as Cell-Life and SIMpill in South Africa leveraging mobile SMS technology to revolutionize healthcare delivery for patients with HIV/AIDS and TB respectively.
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“Leveraging Technology for Positive Social Change”
January 15, 2010Waterloo, Ontario
CanadaRenjie Butalid | @renjie | www.renjie.ca
Social Innovation Generation, University of Waterloo
young changemakers
Kristina Lugo,
Malawi
Majid Mirza,
Pakistan
Ruby Ku, Botswana
Melissa Richer,
Brazil
social business
Photo courtesy World Economic Forum
on Flickr
Photo courtesy
www.t4change.com
$100 million raisedNovember 2009
Photo courtesy
www.microfinancereport.com
Photo courtesy The World
Bank
Photo courtesy
thewe.cc
Photo courtesy
textually.org
$5 million in donations for Haiti via SMS- as of January 15, 2010 source: TechCrunch Blog
Photo (top) courtesy Boston.com – The Big
Picture
Photo (right) courtesy whileseated on Flickr
Source: World Cellular Information
Service
(adapted from Erik Hersman – Mobile
Phone in Africa PICNIC 08)
Source: Erik Hersman – Mobile Phone in Africa PICNIC 2008
http://www.slideshare.net/whiteafrican/mobile-phones-in-africa-picnic-08-presentation
PATIENT MONITORING:
CELL-LIFEwww.cell-life.org
• Location: South Africa – Adherence Messaging (awareness
& appointment reminders) – HIV/AIDS Patient Monitoring
Adapted from Hima Batavia – “Mobile Health: The Great Equalizer” – Oct 2009
Mclaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health & Earth Institute at Columbia University
ADHERENCE:SIMpillwww.simpill.com
Adapted from Hima Batavia – “Mobile Health: The Great Equalizer” – Oct 2009
Mclaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health & Earth Institute at Columbia University
www.mocamobile.org
Estimated 4.5 billion mobile subscribers by 2012
Two-thirds from developing countries
-David EdelsteinGrameen Foundation
Photo courtesy Kristina Lugo,
www.t4change.com
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