Mobile phones and simple text messages are being used to tackle everything from food shortages to childhood HIV across Africa. Think of what text messages are used for and your mind might turn to ...

rapidSMS notifies customers instantly of an alarm via text message with the information needed to make critical decisions in real time. This Dealer brandable, app-free solution is compatible with all ...

One of the biggest challenges that has faced the security industry historically, which continues to this day, is combatting false alarms. While much of the problem can be attributed to user error, the ...

Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Erica Kochi, the co-lead of Tech Innovation at UNICEF. Her team started UNICEF’s open source RapidSMS platform which has been adopted in developing ...

When in 2009 Christopher Fabian and Erica Kochi, two employees of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), developed RapidSMS, a platform for data gathering and group communication using the short ...

When in 2009 Christopher Fabian and Erica Kochi, two employees of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), developed RapidSMS, a platform for data gathering and group communication using the short ...

Marie Gorethe Nyirabambari is animatedly engaged with her mobile phone under a tree outside Karwasa Health Centre in Musanze District. She also sieves through a handful of documents on her lap.

Four years after its introduction, a mobile innovation called RapidSMS, developed by two United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) employees, continues to bring about significant change in key regions ...

The UN estimates 590,000 children have been saved, with deaths now at 42 per 1,000 births compared with 300 in 1994 When a woman goes into labour, Liberata Musabyimana always accompanies her on the ...

Mobile phones and simple text messages are being used to tackle everything from food shortages to childhood HIV across Africa. Think of what text messages are used for and your mind might turn to ...