Episode 9: Ken Banks
TMS Ruge talks to Ken Banks, the founder of kiwanja.net. and a recognized specialist in the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change. His most celebrated innovation is Frontline SMS, a free open source application that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub. In this episode, Ken talks to TMS about how the software is being applied in various fields, the future of SMS, smart phones versus dumb phones, and how many listeners the Digital Continent Podcast has.
For his work, Ken Banks was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in May 2010 and an Ashoka Fellow in 2011, and is the recipient of the 2011 Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. He is the current recipient of grants from the Open Society Institute, Rockefeller Foundation, HIVOS, the Omidyar Network and the Hewlett Foundation. Not bad for a lad from Jersey.
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