Directory of Mobile Applications for Development, Kiwanja.net

Corporate Social Responsibility:

• Qualcomm Wireless Reach:
• Using 3G wireless technology to advance
• Education
• Entrepreneurship
• Healthcare
• Public Safety
  
• HP E-Inclusion Projects
• Example: 15,000 access Mobile Technology for Development
  
• Shell Foundation: "Stove for the Developing World's Health", New York Times

Market Oriented Corporate Research Projects:

• Directory of "Low Cost Computing Platforms for Development"
  
• Microsoft Research India, Technology for Emerging Markets
• List of Projects
• Mosoko
  An MIT and Nokia partnership for developing IVR applications in the developing world
  --um, actually, this is for san fransciso. But it is a working IVR user-generated content application: TellMe
  

Academic Project Development

• TIER: Technology and Infrastructure in Emerging Regions

• Berkeley Research Group on Design and Deployment of new technologiesfor emerging regions
• With active projects in the areas of: Education, Healthcare, Power, Wireless, Speech and Storage
• List of Publications
  

• MILLEE - Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies
• Winner of Qualcomm Wireless Reach Challenge
• Develops mobile phone games for teaching language and literacy

SMS-based commodity pricing in Kenya

MobilED
A group that develops comprehensive education software for mobile phones

List by Topic:
Water Technologies
Transportation Technologies
Agricultural Technologies
Healthcare Technologies
Power Generation
Educational Technologies


NGO List:
Telecentre.org - Building Internet connected Telecentres around the world

Indian Language Translation Service


From NextBillion.org
Large companies serving the BoP:
Casas Bahia
Codensa
Cemex
ITC's e-Choupal
ICICI Bank
Intel's World Ahead
MicroPlace
Smart Communications
Vodafone's M-PESA

Small entrepreneurs serving the BoP:
DESI Power
Drishtee
Gram Mooligai
Healthstore (SHEF/CFW)
Landwasher
Mi Farmacita
Scojo Foundation
Solar Electric Light Fund
Water Health International

Non-profits using market-based models:
Envirofit
International Development Enterprises (IDE)
Kiva

Patient Capita/Venture Philanthropy:
Acumen Fund
Aavishkaar

Design and Technology for the BoP:
MIT's D-Lab
Mobile Phones
One Laptop Per Child
RIOS Institute