be global podcast: Ken Banks – FrontlineSMS
Ken Banks is one of the recipients of the 2011 Curry Stone Design Prize for creating an open source software platform called FrontlineSMS. Ken has been called a ‘mobile anthropologist’ because he has leveraged the potential of cell phones and text messaging to disseminate information, organize aid, and reconnect communities, particularly those in crisis. FrontlineSMS has been downloaded by more than 19,000 users. 
Read Ken’s blog, use Twitter to connect with him and follow FrontlineSMS on Twitter. The be global podcast is produced by DocuCinema. The interviewer is Lee Schneider and you can follow him on Twitter, too.
Texting image courtesy of kiwanja.net.
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