[Web4lib] Mobenzi > Mobile-Phone-Based Empowerment

[Richard Wiggins]

For the first time in decades of following mailing lists, I for one am
filtering all posts from someone -- specifically gerrymck -- from now on.

This relentless, daily -- sometimes hourly -- self-promotion is not
appropriate for Web4lib, or any public forum.  A discussion list is a place
to discuss, not to republish your blog.

/rich

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:22 PM, gerrymck <gerry.mckiernan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mobenzi is a software service that empowers people to earn money by
> completing simple tasks on their mobile phones.
>
> The Concept
>
> Mobenzi is a software service that empowers people to be rewarded for
> completing simple tasks on their mobile phones. These tasks involve certain
> types of problems that are difficult for a computer to solve without
> assistance from a real person – even someone without expert knowledge of
> the
> problem.
>
> We are seeking to uncover new applications for these ‘human intelligence
> tasks’ and build the systems to process them, so that we can create novel
> technology solutions and help thousands of poor people earn additional
> income.
>
> History
>
> Clyral is a software development company based just outside of Durban in
> South Africa. In 2006 we created Mobile Researcher to allow organisations
> to
> capture data in remote locations using standard mobile phones. We designed
> the software as a platform because we had many other application ideas that
> involved the completion of mobile forms.
>
> Pilot Project
>
> In 2009 we partnered with the Business Trust, through their Shared Growth
> Challenge Fund to extend the Mobile Researcher platform to cater for the
> completion of human intelligence tasks and to pilot the service with low
> income people in South Africa’s urban poverty nodes.
>
> Links To Source / How Mobenzi Works / News Coverage / Etc. Available At
>
> [ http://tinyurl.com/yeogj25 ]
>
> And/Or
>
> [
>
> http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/2010/01/mobenzi-mobile-phone-based-empowerment.html
> ]
>
> /Gerry
>
> Gerry McKiernan
> Associate Professor
> Science and Technology Librarian
> Iowa State University Library
> Ames IA 50011
>
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>
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