Sustainable Business
Start-ups ring the changes in farming phone-tech
Laura Owings Demand for phone-based agricultural services has shot up almost 60 per cent across Asia and Africa this year, but many services struggle […]
Tag: mobile phones
Sustainable Business
I’m a bit of a modern-day alchemist, recovering gold from old mobile phones
Sandra Wilson, University of Dundee Smartphones contain about 60 different elements – including not only gold but copper and silver too. All three are […]
Data & Reports
A village goes mobile’: mobile phones and social change
With limited understanding of the English alphabet, people are not interested in text-based material on the internet. Instead, they use mobile phones “for leisure activities, such as listening...
Sustainable Business
Your smart phone is the next water testing kit
Caddisfly is an open source low cost user friendly water testing kit that can be attached to a smart phone’s camera and captured data is transferred to an online […]