Marginalized populations lack access to digital technology yet aspire to participate meaningfully in the digital public sphere. Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact.

To provide the Text to speech to Sign language  and vice versa , hus expand the possibility for illiterate, semi literate or people with disability of hearing, speaking or visual impairment.

The WTS (Wireless Trading System) aims to assist in alleviating financial exclusion and help poverty reduction using text message on the mobile phone to access stock market facilities and other financial services

eduBangla, a web portal based on wiki model is working for development of contributory knowledge base, encompassing all facets of formal and informal educational/learning requirements in Bangla, which will be distributed through Internet and SMS

Media literacy tools Calendars Media Ownership (history, policy, effects, $$$) Washington D.C. Policy change efforts (issues legislation, representatives' contact info) Media Justice, Reform, Democracy sector activities Cross sector activities Local, regional, national, international media/communication rights activity More robust organizational information for partnerships and collaborations.

People's Production House has been conducting interviews with people from across New York City to document their experience of the digital divide. This mash up will put these stories in context. It will locate 1) the location-specific audio recordings on a map of the city, overlaid with 2) data on Internet access (as gathered by the FCC, BroadbandCensus.com, and through our own research), 3) Internet infrastructure (as gathered by the NYC Economic Development Corporation), and 4) poverty levels (from the US Census) or other factors associated with lack of access to information technology. Over time, we would add in 5) other redlined resources, such as banks or healthy food. This will provide a clear representation of the digital divide -- who it affects and how –– and tie it to other social issues. While this proposal is specific to New York City, I foresee it being used in many other cities, perhaps even internationally. It could be a great method of cultural exchange for people at any of the multiple edges of the growing network.