Author Archives: m4id

Tweeting Across Africa

New research from Portland shows that South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Morocco are leading Tweeting in Africa.  The researched analysed +11.5 million geo-located Tweets originating on the continent during the last three months of 2011, findings include that political leaders are still largely absent from the debates playing out on Twitter. It concludes that as [...]

Social Media Strategies

We’re currently working on WHO Europe Region’s social media strategy and the design of pilot campaigns for this years World Health Day on ‘healthy ageing’ as well as WHO’s immunization programme.   We’ve kicked off with staff interviews to gain insight and jointly develop objectives .. we’ll present findings to the Executive Committee on 24 [...]

Campaign highlighted

A big thanks to Frogloop for highlighting our recent campaign, nice!

Technology and Innovation Grant

The New Year has got off to a great start here at M4ID, with news that the Finnish Government Technology and Innovation Fund (TEKES) has awarded us a grant to expand and grow to meet the increasing demand for our services.  We’ll be working on this strategy over the next 11 months and look forward [...]

Happy Holidays!

We wish all of our partners and friends a very happy holiday season and a wonderful New Year 2012.

Social Media Workshop in New Delhi

We hosted a very lively and well-received social media and mobile technology workshop in New Delhi this week, with 55 participants from women’s and youth SRRH/maternal health NGOs from across India.  It was a great group and we learnt a lot from the exchange of ideas and experiences.  The workshop was part of our three-year [...]

Video of our effective Facebook campaign approach

Check out this video highlighting the model we used in our recent small, inexpensive yet successful campaign for increased awareness of Dalit human rights..  we reached the campaign target of 6000 signed and sent appeals within three days!

Amazing – Indian $35 Aakash Android!

Editors of this article in Venture Beat take a sneak peak at Aakash. The 7-inch android tablet, entirely produced in India, will be distributed at a government subsidized price of $35, making it the world’s cheapest Android device.  The Indian government aims to put between 10-12 million of these in the hands of [...]

Situation Analysis for India

We’re this week focusing on developing a social media and mobile situation analysis for India, as a foundation for our India NGO consultations in December.  This is one of the first activities we are carrying out as part of the three-year MacArthur Foundation grant we were awarded to support women’s health organizations in leveraging new [...]

Africa Mobile Trends 2020

Check out this excellent SlideShare presentation on the mobile landscape in Africa in 2020:
Africa Mobile Trends 2020