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Malaria Diagnosis in Real-Time via SMS
Re-posted from the Malaria Consortium blog, with permission from Steve Mellor, Malaria Consortium Systems Manager Malaria Consortium, with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded...
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UN uses FrontlineSMS to help manage aid response in East Africa
By Lisa LaRochelle, FrontlineSMS Project Assistant FrontlineSMS is being used for social change in many different ways across the world. Common use case examples include election monitoring, provision...
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Faster Channels of Communication: A Radio and SMS Initiative in NE Kenya
Infoasaid has recently shared some news about an initiative with Save the Children in Wajir, Kenya, which is using FrontlineSMS to communicate with field workers and community representatives....
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Find answers to Frequently Asked Questions about FrontlineSMS!
FrontlineSMS set up on a laptop. Photo credit: Ken Banks, kiwanja.net When people first encounter FrontlineSMS software, a number of questions come up again and again, both in person and on our...
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Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for FrontlineSMS
By Juliana Bedoya Carmona, Monitoring and Evaluation intern I have recently joined the FrontlineSMS team in Nairobi as part of an ongoing Monitoring and Evaluation Project rolled out by FrontlineSMS in...
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Lessons Learned from the FrontlineSMS Community
As anyone who has experienced it will tell you, working at FrontlineSMS is no ordinary job. The ethos and values of the organisation produce a unique work atmosphere, and the many talented and...
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Josana Academy Becomes the First School to Use PaymentView
Last week, the FrontlineSMS:Credit team returned to one of our favorite cities in Kenya, Kisumu. This time around we were ready to install PaymentView at Josana Academy and Safe Water and AIDS Project...
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A Day Well Spent at FrontlineSMS
Christine Mwangi, Community Project Assistant Intern. I recently joined FrontlineSMS on an internship, as Community Project Assistant. I’m a recent graduate in Computer Science, so I’m very passionate...
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Keeping it Simple with SMS
We are delighted to feature a guest blog post from Rosa Akbari and her work in Algeria, funded by a grant from UNOCHA. Rosa used what was already in place – a mobile phone in each household –...
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Health Information for Remote & Rural Eastern Indonesia
A massive thank you to Rohan Fisher, a researcher at Charles Darwin University who is currently focusing on open-source applications for mobile mapping and health data visualisation in remote and...
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FrontlineSMS Survey Results: Can we build accessible software? Yes we can,...
Here at FrontlineSMS, we love data. Like, a lot. If data had its own Facebook page, we’d ‘like’ it and if we took a picture with data out one night, we’d probably make it our profile picture. Data...
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The View from 100,000
Here at FrontlineSMS, we’ve been making software for a long time. When we first released Version 2 of our software, a little over a year ago, we were one of a few SMS management platforms available-...
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A bit more about FrontlineCloud: announcing a new blog post series
FrontlineCloud has been out in beta for just over a month, and we’re proud to have over 450 users signed up already, sending and receiving thousands of messages. The newest addition to the Frontline...
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Sexual Exploitation Outreach with Text Messaging: Introducing Project Backpage
Get the case study The University of Alberta, MARS lab and the Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation (CEASE) have been using FrontlineSMS in a ground-breaking pilot to assess the impact of using SMS to...
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We Think This Means We’re Officially Cool…
Credit: Rune Fallesen, http://roskilde-festival.dk/about_roskilde/donations/ Most days, we roll out of bed and drink a bunch of coffee and then spend the next ten hours diligently writing code and...
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Send and receive SMS through from your website or service
One of the most asked-about features of our apps (FrontlineSMS and FrontlineCloud) is regarding the ability to handle sending and receiving messages through a third party application or web service....
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DataAid: managing information streams in the Philippines disaster response...
A huge thank you to Amos Doornbos for writing this guest post about his experience using FrontlineCloud as a co-manager of World Vision’s Speed Evidence Project. What’s the problem with data in...
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Running an SMS Quiz for 1000s of users with Frontline
Messaging for the Nairobi iHub’s #5yrTechBash – Powered by FrontlineSMS Last month our friends at the iHub celebrated their 5th anniversary (happy birthday!) with a fittingly grand celebration in the...
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