Congratulations to Ken Banks on winning the prestigious Pizzigati Prize for software in the public interest!

FrontlineSMS

FrontlineSMS is an SMS gateway.  CellAlert is a keyword matching job alert tool that sends info about positions that people in developing countries can bid on and help pull themselves out of poverty.

3 aspects to the project:
  Technical: Its 2 way sms
  Sustainability: focused towards the developing world but also can apply to inner city areas
  Grassroots: It directly enables people to help themselves

With FrontlineSMS is possible to bring 50,000 job alerts to people in the developing world. 

Q. There are plenty of for-profit services like you, how do you compare?

HopePhones, a new campaign, launched today that enables anyone to provide health services to those in the developing world – by donating your old cell phones!