WishVast: Buiding Trust and Social Capital using Cellphones
Khanjan Mehta and Ladislaus Semali
First International Symposium on Intelligent Mobile Technologies for Social Change
Mehta, K., Semali, L. “WishVast: Buiding Trust and Social Capital using Cellphones”, First International Symposium on Intelligent Mobile Technologies for Social Change (IMT4SC’09), Mragowo, Poland, October 2009
Abstract
This paper describes the basic concepts and operation of a cellphone-based social networking system called WishVast. WishVast is an innovation that attempts to harness the pervasiveness of cellphones in developing countries to build trust and optimize resource utilization & supply chains to facilitate people to people trade with the ultimate goal of alleviating poverty.
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