links for 2010-01-08

• Nokia Research Center – Family Story Play concept with Sesame Street | Nokia Conversations – The official Nokia Blog
  Grandparents connect with their grandchildren remotely through shared play and reading, with the equal benefit of helping promote and improve child literacy through engaged interaction. See http://www.research.nokia.com/projects/storyplay
  (tags: nokia_edu)
• google nexus one
  (tags: iwwd_12jan10)

links for 2010-01-07

• Education for everyone using Mobile Phones | Technology for Community Empowerment
  (tags: mobile_education)
• Empathic design – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (tags: designresearch research user_experience ux_design)
• Calling All Innovators | Forum Nokia
  This year the education subcategory within the "Life Improvement" category is being offered. Nokia has teamed up with Sesame Workshop, the producers behind Sesame Street, to encourage developers to create and offer applications for Nokia devices that teach early literacy to communities around the world.
  (tags: nokia_apps nokia_edu mobile_education)

links for 2009-12-31

• Bones for mobile phones | Build it Kenny, and they will come…
  In order for the mobile phone to reach its full potential we’re going to need to understand what people in developing countries need from their mobile devices, and how they can be applied in a way which positively impacts on their lives
  (tags: mobile_research research designresearch)
• What We Are Learning From One Laptop Per Child – OLPC News
  (tags: open_edu)

links for 2009-12-30

• Shell Foundation says getting 2 billion people to adopt improved biomass stoves needs an enterprise approach | ThinkChange India
  (tags: stove)
• Nairalist, Nigerian Classified Ads: Jobs, Houses, Cars, Dating
  (tags: sbs_case_study)
• African Business Opportunity: Multi-Platform Craigslist | ICTWorks
  (tags: sbs_case_study sbs)

links for 2009-12-29

• Change beckons for billionth African | World news | guardian.co.uk
  Africa's rapidly growing population projected to see urbanisation, economic growth, health and climate problems
  (tags: africa africa_future)

links for 2009-12-26

• design walks: value through less
  (tags: ads_case_studies)

links for 2009-12-24

• Forum Nokia Library
  Usability in a mobile application development project guidelines
  (tags: ux_design user_experience)
• Forum Nokia – User Experience driven development
  (tags: design_research mobile_research ux_design)
• ReliefWeb » Document » Slums, climate change and human health in sub-Saharan Africa
  (tags: slums climate_change)

links for 2009-12-23

• When Technology Flops: 6 Common Pitfalls in Product Design for Social Good | Ashoka.org: Technology, Invention and Social Entrepreneurship
  (tags: bop_design)
• Yves-Behar-designed $75 One Laptop Per Child tablet: Too good to be true? – Core77
  yes, too good to be true.
  (tags: mobile_education ict_edu)
• Service Design Research
  This list represents a summary of the past thirty years of service design literature. The citations were compiled from the Emergence conference at Carnegie Mellon University as well as the Designing for Services project in the UK, service design syllabi at CMU and individual research. I've excerpted the abstracts and introductions to the papers and cross-referenced examples and concepts so that it's easy to follow the development of ideas such as "service blueprinting" across multiple papers.
  (tags: service_design)
• List of Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing Examples – Best practices – Open innovation and crowdsourcing
  (tags: open_source open_design)

links for 2009-12-22

• Internet & Mobile Stats: Africa Grows Fastest in the World (2009) — WhiteAfrican
  "Each year the International Telecommunications Union puts out statistics on the state of mobile and internet data around the world. What I’m interested in is their “Information Society Statistical Profiles 2009 – Africa” report"
  (tags: mobile_africa africa_ict)
• ‘Nigeria is strategic to Nokia’s future’
  (tags: nokia_strategy nokia_emerging nokia_africa)

links for 2009-12-20

• Design4Billions : KnowledgeFramework
  12 principles of innovation for BoP markets (C.K. Prahalad) and bottlenecks
  (tags: bop_design research_tips research_4_dev designresearch)
• Designing for the Bottom Billion « Absorb What's Useful
  (tags: bop_design ict4d bop_mob_design mobile_research)