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Engineering mobile web software for social impact

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This document discusses using mobile web software for social development in rural areas. It describes how technologies like cloud computing, SMS, and mobile applications can help connect millions via the cloud and enable services like data collection and supply chain management using low-end mobile phones. This helps ensure essential goods are available in rural areas and can impact areas like agriculture, healthcare, and disaster management. It also outlines some of the challenges in implementing these solutions from human, business, and technical perspectives and emphasizes qualities like compassion, courage, curiosity, equanimity, and resilience that can help address these challenges.

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Engineering mobile web software for social development Arun Ramanujapuram Logistimo arun@logistimo.com
Rural areas low-resource settings
Struggle for basic 稼艶艶糸壊
But, there is hope Service innovations Microfinance ICT penetration Telebanking Mobile data collection Radio/IVR BPOs
Imagine millions connected via the cloud Cloud computing SMS Mobile application Complex computations Big data GPRS Data entry $$$ Freemium / SaaS / Subscription / Pay-per-use /
What do we do (@ Logistimo)? Ensure availability of essential goods in rural and semi-urban areas Supply-chain management using mobile phones Inventory & Order Management Using low-end phones Agriculture Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Construction materials Waste Management Disaster Management
Changes lives Vaccines & drugs Seeds Farm materials Waste collection Disaster management
It is quite challenging Human Intermittent mobile usage Ad-hoc practices Learning curve Business Pricing model is a challenge Quantification of value is hard Customer acquisition is expensive Technical Network challenges Device challenges Web service challenges
What qualities should one nourish? I would prize every invention of science made for the benefit of all. Mahatma Gandhi Deep compassion Courage Curiosity Equanimity Resilience
Lead with your heart! Follow with your brain Thank You! arun@logistimo.com

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Engineering mobile web software for social impact

  • 1. Engineering mobile web software for social development Arun Ramanujapuram Logistimo arun@logistimo.com
  • 2. Rural areas low-resource settings
  • 3. Struggle for basic 稼艶艶糸壊
  • 4. But, there is hope Service innovations Microfinance ICT penetration Telebanking Mobile data collection Radio/IVR BPOs
  • 5. Imagine millions connected via the cloud Cloud computing SMS Mobile application Complex computations Big data GPRS Data entry $$$ Freemium / SaaS / Subscription / Pay-per-use /
  • 6. What do we do (@ Logistimo)? Ensure availability of essential goods in rural and semi-urban areas Supply-chain management using mobile phones Inventory & Order Management Using low-end phones Agriculture Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Construction materials Waste Management Disaster Management
  • 7. Changes lives Vaccines & drugs Seeds Farm materials Waste collection Disaster management
  • 8. It is quite challenging Human Intermittent mobile usage Ad-hoc practices Learning curve Business Pricing model is a challenge Quantification of value is hard Customer acquisition is expensive Technical Network challenges Device challenges Web service challenges
  • 9. What qualities should one nourish? I would prize every invention of science made for the benefit of all. Mahatma Gandhi Deep compassion Courage Curiosity Equanimity Resilience
  • 10. Lead with your heart! Follow with your brain Thank You! arun@logistimo.com