Free Information the Cell-life way
At the start of this blog is a report on the time I spent at Cell-life last year. I went down to visit them today for an update on their Mass Channel project - using cellphones to get HIV/AIDS information to people for free. They want to get that information to people for free. And the idea they have come up with is really clever.
In South Africa it is free to send a ‘call-me’ message to another subscriber. Cell-life have set up a series of numbers to which users wanting information can send a ‘call-me’ The system will then send the user back the required information as an SMS or MMS - genius. A different number is used for each different piece of available information.
Tuesday, 30 October 2007