“Leveraging Technology for Positive Social Change”

January 15, 2010Waterloo, Ontario

CanadaRenjie Butalid | @renjie | www.renjie.ca

Social Innovation Generation, University of Waterloo

young changemakers

Kristina Lugo,

Malawi

Majid Mirza,

Pakistan

Ruby Ku, Botswana

Melissa Richer,

Brazil

social business

Photo courtesy World Economic Forum

on Flickr

Photo courtesy

www.t4change.com

$100 million raisedNovember 2009

Photo courtesy

www.microfinancereport.com

Photo courtesy The World

Bank

Photo courtesy

thewe.cc

Photo courtesy

textually.org

$5 million in donations for Haiti via SMS- as of January 15, 2010 source: TechCrunch Blog

Photo (top) courtesy Boston.com – The Big

Picture

Photo (right) courtesy whileseated on Flickr

Source: World Cellular Information

Service

(adapted from Erik Hersman – Mobile

Phone in Africa PICNIC 08)

Source: Erik Hersman – Mobile Phone in Africa PICNIC 2008

http://www.slideshare.net/whiteafrican/mobile-phones-in-africa-picnic-08-presentation

PATIENT MONITORING:

CELL-LIFEwww.cell-life.org

• Location: South Africa – Adherence Messaging (awareness

& appointment reminders) – HIV/AIDS Patient Monitoring

Adapted from Hima Batavia – “Mobile Health: The Great Equalizer” – Oct 2009

Mclaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health & Earth Institute at Columbia University

ADHERENCE:SIMpillwww.simpill.com

Adapted from Hima Batavia – “Mobile Health: The Great Equalizer” – Oct 2009

Mclaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health & Earth Institute at Columbia University

www.mocamobile.org

Estimated 4.5 billion mobile subscribers by 2012

Two-thirds from developing countries

-David EdelsteinGrameen Foundation

Photo courtesy Kristina Lugo,

www.t4change.com

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