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.

We 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: