The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) is an ambitious project helping rural African communities in 10 countries lift themselves out of extreme poverty through community-led development.

MVP is now testing and building on Open Mobile Consortium tools in its health-related programs. Because MVP is focused on establishing infrastructure in the communities it serves -- both in terms of technological and human capacity -- the project can serve as a test-bed for mobile applications that advance the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).