links for 2009-08-31

September 1, 2009

FutureChat – Indian Crafts and Mobiles | interesting thoughts around craftsmen, artisans & mobile innovations!
CLIP: Since I work with craftsmen in rural India, the applicability of mobile innovation, and the changes it could bring in my field about seem almost limitless.
1. Craft services – this service could actually tie up with either a Dastkar, Dastkari [...]

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My laptop, my MBA! Commercial Mobile Innovation for SME’s

August 31, 2009

This is the last post in the series on Mobile Innovations based on a learning journey that I was a part of. Here’s the full series:

Mobile Innovations – Introduction
Nokia Life Tools – Agriculture Service – “The Internet for the next million” – mobile innovations in rural India
Nokia Life Tools – Education Service – [...]

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The old, the not-so-old, and many facets of the new

August 31, 2009

I took this picture of Dhanaji Dongre, the farmer we visited during our Nokia Life Tools immersions, on my test N97 (which has a pretty cool camera but a lousy touch-screen esp. when compared to the iPhone). He is taking a picture of the crew on his own little camera phone, who in turn, are [...]

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“The Internet for the Next Million” – Mobile Innovations in Rural India

August 31, 2009

It’s how Natesh, Head of  Nokia Life Tools India describes the program – I like the realism when he uses ‘million’ and not ‘millions’ or ‘billion’! Alan Reiter, who was with us during our rural immersions has a great article on Life Tools – here’s an excerpt:
Farmers view Dhanaji Dongre’s crops in Khandali, India, and [...]

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“Raju, go and get some bakery” – Mobile Innovations

August 30, 2009

Umesh Markat, a 9th grade school boy, shyly rattles off this line, quietly proud that he can actually string together a sentence in English! Another example of a sentence in English he shared with us – “Raja Ravi Verma is the best Indian artist”. In the picture below, taken by fellow-blogger Alan Reiter, Umesh [...]

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links for 2009-08-04

August 5, 2009

InfoLady – the rural mobile troubleshooter | via @rmack & @whiteafrican
Clip: "The village information workers, 'mobile ladies', were renamed 'info ladies'. An info lady possesses a laptop or classmate computer, internet modem, headphone, webcam, digital camera, photo printer and a mobile phone for giving the entire livelihood information services at a cheaper rate, and fast.
Help [...]

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links for 2009-07-30

July 31, 2009

UsageWatch | Observing the evolution of technology usage – my friend Rama sent me this link on facebook.
Clips: "… We have thousand of pages of heartwrenching accounts of separations by people sent off to work, fight or study in more or less distant lands. The geographical distance was not the only reason for this [...]

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links for 2009-07-24

July 25, 2009

#FollowFriday: Dead Or Alive? | nice lil dipstick survey results by @pujamadan
Imagine this: you take the same bus to work everyday. You spend a good one hour, sitting, looking out the window, reading a book, chatting up your neighbour, immersing yourself into an experience called the bus-ride. And you notice something else: that on Mondays, [...]

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links for 2009-07-23

July 24, 2009

Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll — New York Magazine
Clip: " … She has a MySpace page and a Livejournal. And she tells me that the Internet brought her to New York, when a friend she met in a chat room introduced her to his [...]

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Mobile Innovations

July 23, 2009

For a few days over the next two weeks, I’m going to be a “scribe” where I will visit with people who’s lives are being transformed through mobile innovations. This will be in rural Maharashtra and Kolhapur, and the two projects we are covering in India are Nokia Life Tools and Nokia Tej.  This is [...]

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Reflections on early blogging

July 23, 2009

This one’s especially for my more recent readers and newer members of my community here, on Facebook and on Twitter.  I was interviewed by BlogAdda. It was interesting to be able to reflect a bit upon my early days of blogging from 2003, and introspect on how blogging has changed me and my world!  I’ve [...]

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links for 2009-07-21

July 22, 2009

Religious Groups Turn to Technology | cool article by @evgenymorozov
If you had to choose one weapon for fighting the next religious war, you could do worse than to pick an iPhone. In recent months, the foot soldiers of religion have come out with a bevy of new programs designed to win converts and make religious [...]

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links for 2009-07-17

July 18, 2009

Tweetable Eats: What Street Vendors Can Teach Businesses About Twitter | nice post from @marketingprofs
Clip: "Lots of businesses on Twitter are doing it right. But, lately, I’ve been finding inspiration less from those companies that have become the poster children for leveraging social media (this means you Comcast, and Zappos, and Dell) and more from [...]

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links for 2009-07-16

July 17, 2009

Over 100 Million Rural Mobile Subscribers In India – Opportunity For MVAS | WATBlog.com – Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India
Clips: "According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), there has been a rise of 18% in use of the mobiles by rural subscribers. Rising from 93.2 million users at the end of [...]

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