Sabi ni Jacky noong Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:31:29 -0400:
I agree with the idea that mobile phone is the latest ICT gadget;
however,
there is a lot that remains to be done in terms of broadband penetration.
You don't need much bandwidth for SMS, and there's a lot you can do with
SMS. For example, the Community Heath Information System (CHITS --
http://www.apdip.net/resources/case/rnd48/view)
excerpt
In this study free and open source tools from the Linux community
combined with participatory people-centric strategies were employed to
enable implementation of an injury surveillance system by health
workers. The project has three main components: a Short Messaging
Service (SMS) for reporting injuries, training of health workers on
injury surveillance and a web-based system for the graphic presentation
of injury data used by decision makers. The pilot project was
implemented in a poor urban village of the Philippines. SMS was selected
because of its widespread penetration in the Philippines and its
wireless capabilities.
/excerpt
Another SMS-enabled service is B2Bpricenow (www.b2bpricenow.com), a
portal that provides up-to-the-minute price updates on market
information for agriculture, consumer manufactures, and industrial
produce. It brings together farmers and transport providers so that the
former can get information such as pricing and transport availability
from the latter.
In a previous post (or it might've been in another mailing list), I
thought that mobile telephone carriers could tie up with The Knowledge
Channel (TKC) or some similar educational TV station to provide quick
quizzes to the student viewers. TKC would flash a question on screen and
invite viewers to SMS in their answers, and TKC would reply to a
viewer's cell phone with either correct or wrong. In the latter
case, it would send the correct answer. The carriers would lend their
infrastructure, ideally at reduced SMS rates.
So who needs 3G? G
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