Mobile Advance: Mobile Ministry for God's Glory

Have you ever heard of the "One Laptop Per Child" (OLPC) initiative?  This is a noble, but ill-fated attempt to, "create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."  Although the initiative has created a huge level of interest, funding and development in the realm of low-cost computing, its most important outcome, the creation those educational opportunities for the world's poorest children, has remained beyond the reach of the initiative with only 1.5 million laptops delivered in five years of the program's existence (more information about OLPC here). 

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Written by Keith Williams

Published: 08 November 2010

1)  Global Mobile Stats- possibly the best, and most up-to-date, listing I’ve found on the web giving the pertinent stats you need to know to understand the current state of mobile in the world

2)  Apple Joins Top Five Mobile Phone Vendors as Worldwide Market Grows Nearly 15% in Third Quarter. Don’t miss the comparison between the number one, Nokia- 110 million phones sold, and Apple- 14.5 million phones sold. That’s a long way between number five and number one!

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Written by Keith Williams

Published: 03 November 2010

Following up on my last post, Rethinking Our Apps-sumptions, which pointed out that most phones in use in the developing world can't run apps, I thought it might be a good idea to show what the phone "ecosystem" in the developing world looks like.  What kind of phones are the unreached using?  What capabilities do they have?  What are the unreached doing with their phones?  Fortunately, the good folks at Yiibu have already put together a great presentation sharing insights and answers to these questions so sit back and enjoy their slideshow:

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Written by Keith Williams

Published: 02 November 2010