In the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, the American Red Cross raised over $32 million in donations through $10 text messages. This figure smashed the existing mobile fundraising efforts and amazed even the champions of mobile advocacy.

Introducing Twilio SMS

Has your organization ever wanted to have an easy way to automate your text-messaging services? Last week, Twilio announced a tool that allows you to add SMS functionality to your web apps for about 3 cents a message. At the bottom of this post, I've embedded a video from Twilio explaining how the service works.

Text messaging technology has recieved a lot of attention after having a considerable impact in the aftermath of the recent earthquake in Haiti, but for some of us it's hard to know the best ways to dip our toes into the world of SMS.

I have been invited to return to Netsquared as champion for Ipeace, a featured project of the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge. The innovative project is described as follows:

Ipeace, is a safety open source mobile telephony platform and Web 2.0 platform to allow journalist, human rights activist, scientist and people to expose war crimes and human rights violation in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ipeace open-source mobile telephony platform will uses J2ME code that can run on a wide range of java-enable phones. 

I just want to introduce our IJCentral featured project and welcome any comments - I look forward to receiving comments or questions from N2Y4 conference participants.  You can find the project at: http://www.netsquared.org/projects/ijcentral

 Here is a trailer of The Reckoning, the documentary that will be driving the IJCentral project:

I.  What does Cell Alert/FrontlineSMS offer?

Cell Alert/FrontlineSMS empowers people in poor areas by providing alerts on anything they want to track. Whenever our online searches find useful information, we forward alerts alerts through cell phone or email that lets users act in response to humanitarian crises, genocide, economic aid, medical supplies, loans, and agricultural market trends.

II.  Our origins and development

Cell Alertâ„¢ was launched as a non-profit service as a response to difficulties encountered by refugees coming to the Washington D.C. area from many different African countries.

HI THERE DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT MY PROJECT ON THE N2Y4 COMPETITION AND VOTE FOR IT TO BECOME A SUCCESS. LINK:

HTTP://www.netsquared.org/projects/eduican-sharing-knowledge

Dear Friends,

I have submitted my entry for N2Y4 Mobile Challenge.

http://www.netsquared.org/projects/local-sms-community-newsletter-promotion-self-employment

Kindly visit my project & help me in spreading the idea.

Regards

Ravi Ghate

Pune,India

We are faced with education challenges in my country Namibia mostly in government schools and schools in rular areas. What I'm trying to do is establish a networking system where students can share ideas and assist each others on home work and school projects. This will be a connection between students in the whole country and will bring interactionb among students from public schools and private schools. I want to use the Instant Messaging Service that will automaticaly deliver messages to all registered students within a certain subject.

I need help on Instant Messaging servers and softwares

Read about my project in Project Gallery: EduIcan Sharing Knoweldge

SurePower Flash Presentation November 20, 2008

Click on the link to the SWF  presentation on the SurePower concept

http://gcmcknight.webng.com/Surepower/

Please Note:  This is an audio soundslide. Please  turn up the volume