By: Three years on, but still some way to go… — Build it Kenny, and they will come…

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:28:31 +0000

[...] Cellphone 9 described FrontlineSMS as “The NGO Twitter”, while Unthinkingly thought it was “a thoroughly wonderful idea in many ways … If you’re into international rural research with mobile phones. A tool worth watching very closely, it’s what I think is the leading platform of the mobile research ‘industry’ if there is such a thing”. Chromosome LK won the Dramatic Headline competition with their “FrontlineSMS and Sri Lankan Gays” (referring to its use in Sri Lanka by a gay rights group), while Aydin Design decided that one of the really exciting things about FrontlineSMS was “the speed of development – with low resources, putting it in the hands of people now – so they can do things to improve their lives – now”, which is exactly what it is trying to do. Isis-Inc – who’s strap line is “Technically, it’s about sex” (?) – concluded their coverage with “Yay FrontlineSMS!! Access meets elegance!!”. [...]

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By: Three years on, but still some way to go… — Build it Kenny, and they will come…