Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Since 2007, offerings like M-Pesa , a mobile money transfer service, which began as an initiative from the telecommunications company Vodafone, is a huge opportunity for those living in primarily cash-based societies like Kenya and Tanzania. Much of the Aadhaar identification system’s potential has yet to be realized.

India 52

India Kenya Indonesia Bangladesh 52

NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Freedom Fone leverages audio as a mobile function using IVR, a technology that allows a system to detect voice and keyboard input. IVR allows a user to call, enter or say specific numbers, and listen to or contribute audio content. Freedom Fone in Tanzania and Ghana. Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania.

Press 49

Press Ghana Tanzania Zimbabwe 49

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Previous winners have developed open-source applications and systems that are free, shareable, and benefit organizations that work to benefit others. Most notably, it has been used by nonprofit D-Tree International to reduce rates of serious illness and preventable and treatable diseases in Tanzania.

Open Source 40

Open Source Tanzania Rwanda Open 40