Wireless Technology for Social Change

This second report is the outcome of the partnership between the UN Foundation and the Vodafone Group Foundation. Their core commitments are:

(1) to develop rapid response telecommunications teams to aid disaster relief;

(2) to develop health data systems that improve access to health data thereby helping to combat disease;

and (3) to promote research and innovative initiatives using technology as an agent and tool for international development.

The report demonstrates how mobile phone technology has been invaluable in the areas of health, humanitarian assistance and environmental conservation.

Mobile Phone Banking

This first report is entitled “Mobile Phone Banking and Low-Income Customers – Evidence in South Africa”. It was produced in 2006 by CGAP, the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor of the World Bank, on behalf of the United Nations Foundation and the Vodafone Group Foundation.

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