Title: Future of mobiles for change
Author: Mark Belinsky
Source: 6 to cut, 4 to sharpen

Date (published): 02/04/2010
Date (accessed): 05/04/2010
Type of information: blog post
Language: English
On-line access: yes (HTML)
Abstract:
On Wednesday I sent out a tweet asking “What can Nokia do to support & empower people around the world.” I was at an event put on by Nokia, Abundancy Partners and Lovely Day, to discuss ICT for good. To give the event some additional structure, some of us reinterpreted the question.

Nokia is one of the worlds largest manufacturers of many items we know and hold dear: flashlights, calendars, calculators.. All in a little mobile box. They consider them essential applications. Now that Symbian has gone open source, people are even more free to develop apps, and mobile companies to use its software.

What are the new “essential apps” became a focus of mine throughout the day, as well as how can marginalized communities best gain access to more valuable aspects of phones that would require a facilitated, yet open exchange.