December 31 Deadline Rapidly Approaching for Competition with $650,000 in Cash and Prizes for Wireless and mHealth Solutions



The Vodafone Americas Foundation and mHealth Alliance announced the last call for submissions for the annual Vodafone Americas Foundation Wireless Innovation Project™ and the mHealth Alliance Award, a competition designed to spark innovation and help solve pressing global issues. Proposals will be accepted through December 31.




The Vodafone Americas Foundation and mHealth Alliance released a call for submissions for the annual “Wireless Innovation Project and the mHealth Alliance Award”. This competition identifies and supports wireless-related technologies that have a high potential for solving critical global issues.

The Vodafone Americas Foundation, one charitable arm of the mobile telecommunications company, launched the Wireless Innovation Project in 2009 to recognize innovative wireless solutions that could make a global impact. Applicants compete for first, second and third-place prizes worth $300,000, $200,000 and $100,000.

Hi everyone,

As part of the global SAP Corporate Social Responsibility team, I am responsible for managing our worldwide Technology Donation program that provides free reporting and data visualizaton tools to over 900 non-profts each year in 15 countries. We have been partnering with TechSoup for quite a while now and am excited about the many possibilites to engage.

Today is the final day of community voting for the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. We need your support so please come VOTE. Let us start by saying a huge thank you to all the people who have already voted for the 60 seconds of Hope campaign, your support has been fantastic. 

VOTING requires a couple of minutes of your time. We wish it was easier, so here are some short directions to help make it as quick as possible:

1. Follow our link - Click VOTE and be redirected to another window where you will need to quickly register.

Voting is still open for the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge and Tole-rants Connect needs your help. Please spare a few moments and VOTE for 60 seconds of Hope.

The Tole-rants movement has garnered tremendous support in its inaugural year from partners such as The Council of Europe, The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Search for Common Ground, Odyssey Networks, Youth Leader Magazine, and many other inspirational organizations.

Voting is now open for the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge and Tole-rants Connect needs YOUR help.

Community voting is open from the 11th October – 15th October. This is where you come in. We need your support and your vote to ensure that we have the best chance of being 1 of 15 featured projects selected for the expert judging round and the chance of receiving critical support to fund this important initiative.

Voting only takes a minute. So please come and vote for us at Tole-rants Connect Spread the word to friends, family, work colleagues, and anyone with a passion for “Communicating Solutions” via twitter, facebook, word of mouth, whatever you can think of.

The use of mobile phones has been increasing at an accelerated rate all over Africa. In some regions we have seen the impact on health systems, where health centres are now able to call hospitals for an ambulance when there is an emergency. 

While mobile phone coverage may exist it is not always used to its full potential to improve social services. Mobile coverage comes at a cost, and resources are not available to all.  Ways must be found to make networks more accessible so they can be used to promote access to health care across the rural sector where long distances and bad roads make it all the more essential to provide a timely referral system for patients suffering complications.

On June 22nd and 23rd Wireless Access for Health (WAH) announced the results of its first year piliot project at public events in Moncada and Makati, Philippines.

WAH is a broad public-private partnership in the Philippines that has succeeded in enhancing a locally developed electronic medical record system and introducing it into four rural health units in four different municipalities in Tarlac Province, Luzon. The enhanced system is capable of generating and transmitting all 23 reports required for the Philippine Field Health Service Information System (FHSIS) over the SMART 3G mobile phone network.

Vodacom is hosting three challenges to support people who are using mobile technology to solve problems dealing with education, health, or community information that are deployable in South Africa. Their hope is to find projects that can demonstrate value for users, ease of use and deployment, scalablability, sustainability, and innovation. The winning teams will receive R20,000 ($2,646) and the winner with the most promise will receive an additional R20,000.

I vowed to post something from my heart about the Health Panel Expo to the two "hall monitors" when they asked..... so here I am, showing up, giving the love. One long run-on sentance at a time. <3