Volunteers excepted, Instant messaging based on PCs has limited
application for the public at large in many countries in the developing
world when compared to the use of equivalent applications associated
with hand held devices.
These include mobile phones with microbrowsers or more likely SMS
Volunteers excepted, Instant messaging based on PCs has limited
application for the public at large in many countries in the developing
world when compared to the use of equivalent applications associated
with hand held devices.
These include mobile phones with microbrowsers or more likely SMS
Instant messaging does not have to solely be limited to use of widely
distributed chat clients. I wrote an application earlier this year that
utilized instant messaging technology but worked by embedding the
technology into the application itself.
The business case was to improve the situation of
I would like to follow up on Margaret Grieco's plea, which we hear from
multiple sources, for some way of taking stock of what we know and
what we have learned in the area of ICTs for Development. The uses of
SMS for development is - of course - just a subset of that larger body
of knowledge.
It
Information communication technologies and the Volunteer sector.
Jayne Craven's email with its very useful information on Instant
Messaging initiatives is timely: the negative view on the utility of
such initiatives is still very much in play. I constantly receive
reviews of my work which doubt
Volunteer managers already have phones and email to work with offsite
volunteers. What is the advantage of using Instant Messaging (IM) with
such volunteers as well? UNITeS http://www.unites.org, the ICT
volunteering initiative of United Nations Volunteers
http://www.unvolunteers.org, has created
