Mobile phones as tools where computers cannot go

via Open Data Kit Joins the Open Mobile Consortium | Open Mobile Consortium.

The Open Mobile Consortium’s open source software tools help organizations to better serve the health, humanitarian and development needs of the “bottom billion,” the poorest and most disenfranchised citizens of the world. It is an unprecedented collaboration across organizations to better serve communities with open source mobile tools. Together, they are building a vibrant set of platforms for use, at no cost, with no restrictions.

OMC members share a vision that by working together to drive grassroots mobile technology innovation in some of the most challenging, resource-poor environments in the world, they will create a simple, flexible, and reliable set of technology that enable to individual and organizations anywhere in the world to effect social change.