Mobile Phone & Development Link Drop

Mobile Phone & Global Development Link Drop

• New Mobile Health Newsletter launches, full story, newsletter
• MIT Course: mobile technologies for social change, link
• Mobile Phones fighting Cholera, link
• So You Want to Quit Smoking: Have You Tried a Mobile Phone? link
• The Cellphone That Could Change the World, SE Change blog
  
• Phones for Health: Great Idea But Where’s the Evidence? Center for Global Development
• UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge, [deadline March 20] link
• Foundations announce Mobile Health, Banking Initiatives, we have blogged about the UN-Vodafone-Rockefeller alliance before, link
  • For a full list of all projects in the mHealth for Development alliance see 3G Doctor, link
    
• New article on the bandwidth threshold needed to diagnose stroke remotely (telemedicine), link
• Mobile Phone Quick Hits Around Africa, link
• Remittance estimate via mobile phones cut by 50%, link
• International Women’s Day: Women in Mobile and Mobile for Women, MobileActive
• iPhone Apps for Nonprofits, HaveFunDoGood (hat tip ckreutz)
• Bullet Point on the Challenges with Mobiles Phones for Human Development, link
• Are Hospital Mobile Phones Dialing Up Superbugs?, link (hat tip ckreutz)
  

Previous link drops:
Mobile Phones and Global Health Link Drop
Mobile Phones and International Health Links Part II
Mobile Phones & Global Health III: Ultrasound, Imaging & ECG to Go! Link