Written by Awaaz.De on December 26, 2011
A great testimonial from a farmer recently on Avaaj Otalo’s ‘Margdharshan’ broadcast service. Roughly three times a week, over three thousand farmers get a phone call with a fresh message from DSC with information on dealing with the problems most facing farmers on that particular time of the growing...Written by Awaaz.De on December 20, 2011
Here are some great news articles from this past week about India and mobile technology: Global Investors bet $1 billion on India India’s Missed Call Mobile Ecosystem How the Internet is Consumed in India How active are India’s mobile subscribers? Are there any other articles that have caught your...Written by Awaaz.De on November 10, 2011
As part of the Tech Awards week, laureates participated in the Nexus Conference hosted at Santa Clara University. Each laureate was asked to prepare a 60 second elevator pitch on their organization. After drafts and re-drafts, feedback from a speed pitch session where we practiced 14 times each 🙂...Written by Awaaz.De on October 26, 2011
One of many perks of being a Tech Awards Laureate is having a short film produced on our work. Thanks to Sandy Smolan and his team for putting this together, it turned out great!Written by Awaaz.De on September 22, 2011
Awaaz.De was named a finalist for Mashable.com’s Startups for Good Challenge. Jon, who interned with Awaaz.De this summer, represented us in New York at the famous 92nd Street Y. There he gave a three-minute pitch of Awaaz.De to a panel of judges and a live audience. He did a...Written by Awaaz.De on April 28, 2011
We are excited to announce that our partner Breakthrough will be launching a ringtone campaign through their messaging platform, Chatpati Chat. Breakthrough will be releasing these ringtones over the phone line and over the web for download. The first one is below, check it out and put it on...Written by Awaaz.De on April 7, 2011
Yesterday, a farmer responded to the answer he received from DSC’s Avaaj Otalo service; an example of the kind of back-and-forth dialogue that Awaaz.De intends to facilitate. See the translated quote below (translation by our own Tapan Parikh). We love hearing this! Big ups to Avaaj Otalo. I will...