- May 26, 2009
Welcome to the Open Mobile Consortium
We are proud to announce the public launch of the Open Mobile Consortium.
The Open Mobile Consortium represents our collective commitment and shared vision to better serve communities around the world with high-quality mobile technologies.
So, welcome to the OMC! Let me tell you why we exist, who we are, and how you can get involved.
- May 26, 2009
Open Mobile Consortium Launches With Open Source Mobile Tools for Health and Humanitarian Work
Press ReleaseWe are proud and happy that six months of hard work have paid off: the Open Mobile Consortium has launched today. Conceived at MobileActive08 in South Africa, the OMC is featuring a suite of fully open source mobile applications focused on health and humanitarian work.
The OMC is an unprecedented collaboration amongst nine high-profile organizations to develop an interopable set of platforms of high-quality open source mobile tools for humanitarian and civil society work.
Here is our press release:
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).
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