Africa’s Mobile Explosion • Hacker News Board

Re: Africa’s Mobile Explosion

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Post by pratagarwal » Fri, Feb 22, 2013, 7:45 PM UTC

svetha wrote: post #10

Great thread! I run a nonprofit called New Incentives (newincentives.org) that provides behavior-based cash incentives, known as conditional cash transfers, directly to individuals living on less than $0.30/day in five developing countries. My team is building a geolocation-based monitoring system to determine whether or not the conditions behind our cash incentives are met. We plan to license this technology to larg…

Wow, cool idea! From what I understand, you guys use cash incentives after a particular job/work/behavior is done or result achieved.

Building a technolog like yours (sort of a foursquare for developing countries) could have awesome implications for these countries. Keep us updated on HN please. This is great!

Re: Africa’s Mobile Explosion

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Post by svetha » Fri, Feb 22, 2013, 7:55 PM UTC

pratagarwal wrote: post #11

svetha wrote: post #10

Great thread! I run a nonprofit called New Incentives (newincentives.org) that provides behavior-based cash incentives, known as conditional cash transfers, directly to individuals living on less than $0.30/day in five developing countries. My team is building a geolocation-based monitoring system to determine whether or not the conditions behind our cash incentives are met. We plan to license this technology to larg…

Wow, cool idea! From what I understand, you guys use cash incentives after a particular job/work/behavior is done or result achieved. Building a technolog like yours (sort of a foursquare for developing countries) could have awesome implications for these countries. Keep us updated on HN please. This is great!

Thanks for the encouragement, your understanding is spot on. I'll definitely keep the HN community posted!

Re: Africa’s Mobile Explosion

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Post by rlamptey » Tue, Feb 26, 2013, 10:35 AM UTC

svetha wrote: post #10

Great thread! I run a nonprofit called New Incentives (newincentives.org) that provides behavior-based cash incentives, known as conditional cash transfers, directly to individuals living on less than $0.30/day in five developing countries. My team is building a geolocation-based monitoring system to determine whether or not the conditions behind our cash incentives are met. We plan to license this technology to larg…

Yes it will be possible to have a user with a feature phone to auto check-in but that will be from an application level. My company http://www.saya.im has a chat application tailored to feature phone and one of the features is a geo-location chatroom. We are able to do this using cell-tower id's and triangulations and augment that with the phones IP address. There are open-source cell-tower id databases like http://www.opencellid.org/ which can be of help. Also you may want to think of a Java ME app to implement this.