I'd rather see my role as one of providing useful, appropriate mobile tools to other changemakers - those working in the developing world for their own positive social and environmental change
Anywhere wild and remote
For everyone to be given the best and an equal opportunity to maximise their own impact and potential, whoever and wherever they may be
Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net, devotes himself to the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change in the developing world, and has spent the last 15 years working on projects in Africa. Recently, his research resulted in the development of FrontlineSMS, a field communication system designed to empower grassroots non-profit organisations. Ken graduated from Sussex University with honours in Social Anthropology with Development Studies, and was awarded a Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship in 2006, and named a Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellow in 2008. Ken's work has been supported by the MacArthur Foundation and Open Society Institute, and he is the current recipient of a grant from the Hewlett Foundation. Further details of Ken's wider work are available on his website at http://www.kiwanja.net
