Ushahidi, one of the winners of USAID's 2008 Development 2.0 Challenge, was highlighted by the World Economic Forum as a "disruptive innovator" in information technology for not only developing groundbreaking products and services, but also redesigning business and society.

E-Fulusi Africa (T) Limited is a Tanzanian company that aims at developing solutions to benefit the African continent as a whole. E-Fulusi began with the intention of content and services provision using existing infrastructure such as mobile networks.

GDC congratulates Development 2.0 Challenge winner RapidSMS for having successfully completed its pilot study in Malawi. The results are now available on their website.

After trekking to New York City for MobileActive’s last Mobile Technology for Social Change (M4Change) event, I was thrilled to take the metro down to Google’s DC offices for last week’s M4Change barcamp.