Text to Change
This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
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What can mobile technology do for health, education and economic development? Connect, start a dialogue and create endless opportunities. Text to Change knows how to reach people in Africa.
Sobre ti
Sobre ti
Sobre tu organización
Nombre de la organización
Text to Change
Sitio web de la organización
País de la organización
Holanda
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Uganda
Tu organización es
OSC/ONG
¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?
1-5 años
¿Tu organización ha recibido premios y/u honores? Cuéntanos sobre ellos.
2010:
-Dutch national Transparency in the development aid sector (http://texttochange.org/news/text-change-wins-first-transparency-award-d...)
-Content Services award for best mobile service provider in Uganda from the Communications Commission (http://texttochange.org/news/text-change-wins-annual-communications-inno...)
2011:
-Nomination for Best Product, Initiative or Service for Underserved Segments for the GSMA's 16th Annual Global Mobile Awards (http://texttochange.org/news/text-change-nominated-gsmas-16th-annual-glo...)
-Remarkable Healthcare Engagement Channel Award from Creation Healthcare (http://engagementstrategy.com/articles/hes-smstext/)
-IdeasProject, Nokia and WWF's Award to Use Mobile Phones for Wildlife Conservation (http://www.texttochange.org/news/text-change-wins-nokia-and-wwfs-award-u...)
-mHealth Award for the best mHealth project druing the eWorld Jury Choice Awards in New Delhi, India (http://texttochange.org/news/text-change-wins-mhealth-award-eworld-confe...)
2012:
-Best Paper Award at the 3rd International Conference on Mobile Communication for Development (M4D 2012) in New Delhi, India (http://texttochange.org/news/text-change-wins-award-international-confer...)
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Innovación
Nombre de tu iniciativa
Text to Change
Selecciona la fase que describa mejor el momento en el que se encuentra tu emprendimiento
Expansión (el siguiente paso será crear un impacto a escala regional o incluso mundial)
¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?
Operando entre 1-5 años
La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?
Text to Change is driven by the belief that the mobile phone has become more and more affordable and accessible, also at the poorest level of the population in rural areas. By themselves, mobile phones will neither pull people out of poverty, nor propel democratic governance. Instead they are catalytic tools for enhancing and broadening development programming if deployed strategically.
Access to information in the developing world is a well-known challenge.
Text to Change plays a vital role in improving lives - even in the most isolated areas - by connecting people via their mobile phones. We also collect participants’ data for analysis, which then helps us to plan our campaigns more effectively. In this way, we are reaching out to hundreds of thousands of people.
La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.
Currently 80% of the population in developing countries have access to a mobile phone. Text messages are an easy, scalable, and anonymous way to gain access to people. This is the reason why Text to Change so strongly believes in the power of using SMS to provide and collect important information – especially in the developing world. It’s an effective and efficient way of reaching people. SMS can be used as a very effective campaigning tool because of the 100% opening rate. Also 95% of messages is read within 4 minutes in Africa.
TTC was the first of its kind in Africa, mobile phones had never been used before on such a large scale for health educational purposes. The success of Text to Change’s initial programmes in Uganda – covering HIV prevention and the uptake of HIV Voluntary Counseling & Testing (HCT), malaria, family planning, reproductive health and child abuse – paved the way for Text to Change’s emerging presence across Africa and other developing regions.
El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias
Text to Change conceptualizes, manages and analyses mobile phone-based programs. Our flexible and easily scalable mobile platform sends out and receives text messages, mms, voice and data. We focus on improving healthcare and education, stimulating economic development and creating awareness on environmental issues.
Examples of what we do: Interactive and incentive-based quizzes to educate people, personalized medicine reminder programs, data collection surveys via apps and SMS and price information systems for farmers. Our model encourages continued participation in our programmes and sparks a dialogue on topics such as HIV/AIDS, which are often considered taboo.
An example of one of our projects that enabled the empowerment of women is The Unicef Mother Reminder System. This project aims at improving the lives of children and mothers in nine districts of Uganda by using available technology to educate and mobilize mothers and families to demand for ANC and PMTCT services. The combination of field research, experience with past SMS programs and lessons learned from similar programs ensure that the implementation design is realistic; both technically and practically.
El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?
Most of the competitors of Text to change are focused locally or by sector. TTC has experience in several countries and in several sectors without underestimating the quality of each project.
-Praekelt Foundation
-Cell-Life
-Voxiva
-Dimagi
-D-Tree
-Grameen Foundation
Impacto social
Esta presentación se trata de
¿Qué solución/es propone tu iniciativa para mejorar la vida de las niñas y mujeres a través del apalancamiento de tecnologia/s? (selecciona todas las que apliquen)
Acceso a la atención médica.
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
Text to Change and Health Child introduced a mobile phone SMS campaign to increase access to health information and services among the rural communities in Jinja (Uganda). Through interactive and incentive-based SMS quizzes on health information and promotion. Already 60% of the respondents reported that they had come to seek for HIV Counselling and Testing services.
Health Child, a local organization in the districts of Jinja and Wakiso is supported by Dutch NGO Cordaid, and is currently working with plans to extend its services to other parts of the country as funding allows.
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?
The project is expected to have the following outcomes: (i) the percentage of pregnant women who complete the recommended four visits will increase from 47% to 75%; (ii) women who deliver their babies under skilled care will increase from 39% to 70%; (iii) women who attend post-natal care services will increase from 36% to 80%; and (iv) the number of fully immunized children will increase from 41.9% to 75%.
Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto
We'll focus on better partnerships and positioning TTC more. Partnerships with the private and public sector with a global view.
Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.
Tarea 1
In the coming 6 months we will work in 17 countries in Africa and South America and we’ll work on our global footprint.
Tarea 2
We want to focus more on the private sector besides our normal public sector contracts .
Tarea 3
Improve our mobile technologies, our open-source platform Vusion will be launched. That includes integration with social media.
¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.
In 12 months we'll work in 3 continents for 5 governments, 10 companies, 8 UN-organizations and 20 NGO's.
Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses
Tarea 1
TTC’s systems will be available in all (local) languages, next to English and Spanish.
Tarea 2
We’ll be executing active sales activities in big countries like Brazil, China, India and Russia.
Tarea 3
We’ll expand from 2 to 4 offices; we’ll hire more local people and focus on training our local staff.
Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.
Text to Change was launched in 2007, after Bas Hoefman was inspired by a documentary on the growth of mobile telephony in Africa. Bas Hoefman was a Marketing Manager, his sister was a Tropical Doctor and Hajo van Beijma was an IT-specialist. Bas and Hajo are friends since kindergarden. Mobile phones are now readily available at relatively low cost throughout the poorest countries. Networks cover the majority of the world’s population. Bas Hoefman, Hajo van Beijma and Marieke Hoefman combined their expertise and developed this brilliant idea of using short message service (SMS) communication in order to reach wide audiences on health related issues.
Sostenibilidad
Cuéntanos sobre tus alianzas.
With a four year successful track record, TTC has experience in working with both the public and the private sector. Among Text to Change's partners and clients are the UN (Unicef, ECOSOC and GIVAS), governments (USAID, German, Dutch and English Ministries), NGO’s (Family Health International, Cordaid, IICD, Warchild, HIVOS, Twaweza), universities (Johns Hopkins (USA), Makerere (Uganda), University Utrecht (The Netherlands)), companies (Kakira Sugar, IBM, Microsoft, PWC, Clifford & Chance, Merck) and major mobile providers (Orange, Airtel, MTN, Vodacom).
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