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Tag Archives: Nathan Eagle

Crowdsourcing work through mobiles

Written by Rohan Samarajiva on October 30, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Intriguing idea reported by the Economist about breaking down work into small chunks and getting people to send it back using their mobiles. The polling feature developed for LIRNEasia by Respere could fit into this easily, though Eagle may have done that in his application. Mr Eagle hopes txteagle will do its bit by mobile [...]

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Discerning teleuse from mobile transaction generated information

Written by Rohan Samarajiva on August 20, 2009 — Leave a Comment

What LIRNEasia tries to do with its teleuse@BOP research is to understand how and why people use ICTs at the bottom of the pyramid. We do this from the demand side. That has its advantages, but disadvantages too, such as cost, shortcomings in memory, etc. Therefore, we were thrilled to see someone else engaged in [...]

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Realistic vision of mobile 2.0 at the BOP

Written by Rohan Samarajiva on December 8, 2007 — Leave a Comment

A thoughtful contribution by someone who is developing a voice interface for the mobile internet. The Mobile Web is NOT helping the Developing World… and what we can do about it. By Nathan Eagle | MobileActive.org This is not to say that these billions of mobile phones do not have the potential to access content [...]

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