Stories, software and strategies to help nonprofits do the social web
Our first module, Savings & Credit, will be available within the next three to five months. It will allow users to issue credit, hold client savings and record client credit histories. By linking individual profiles to their respective phone numbers, Savings & Credit will automatically track loan dispersals and adjust outstanding balances as mobile payments are received. Any mobile payment in excess of an outstanding balance will be attached to the appropriate profile in the form of mobile savings, which an...
October, 10 2009 • 2 Comments • 0 Faves
In addition to the winning project, FrontlineSMS: Medic, the NetSquared Mobile Challenge had several projects that use FrontlineSMS software:FrontlineSMS Alerts and IJ Central were two other finalists. Several more were centered around SMSmessaging, though it was not clear if FrontlineSMS was the software they intended to use. So what is this FrontlineSMS stuff, exactly?FrontlineSMS software is a SMS switchboard made for the needs of NGOs. By leveraging basic tools already available to most NGOs — computers...
June, 1 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
What’s a multi-modal application? One that does phone, web, and perhaps Twitter, etc. One example is TwitterVoteReport, a Rails application that collected reports of waiting time at the polls for the 2008 US election. Produced in 3 weeks by Dave Troy. Input came from telephone, Twitter, SMS. Here’s how Dave did it: Open-source Software to do Voice Adhearsion Ruby library for easing call handling. Provides a domain language for doing voice in Ruby Asterisk actually talks to the phone system Other Options...
May, 26 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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