Tech Soup
MAY 7, 2013
Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. It will be a Braille phone and it is due to come out the end of this year at an affordable price ($185). The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. Digital Wallets.
Tech Soup
MAY 12, 2014
The above is the analysis of Jozef Vodicka, a Slovakian geek and entrepreneur, whose team has developed a multi-mobile-platform (iOS, Android, Windows Phone) application for documenting illegal dumping and, not incidentally, for mobilizing environmental consciousness and fostering citizen engagement. More than 100 illegal dumps were cleaned.
Tech Soup
APRIL 23, 2013
This is similar to the success of projects like Restart Romania in which social activists got help to develop online tools to address corruption in high places, and also a national website for tracking medication shortages in Romania. The IT press has been covering lots new developments lately in paying by mobile phone.
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