Just a day after I posted about the wireless report of the UN Foundation, one of the case study subjects in that report wins a Knight Foundation grant in the second year of the foundation’s news challenge. Dr. Joel Selanikio, a founder of DataDyne.org, won the $325,000. grant with the ‘News on Cellphones’ idea of delivering news to the poor via text messaging!. DataDyne.org develops open-source mobile technology which is used in developing countries to improve the health care system for the rural poor.
You can see all of the winners of Knight Foundation grants here.
Seeing the Forest AND the Trees 
I was lucky enough to have Joel do a keynote at my last Digital Library Federation Forum in April. With Twin Cities Public TV, and Peter Kaufman, I was able get it up on YouTube at youtube.com/diglib. Due to length limitations, there are 7 segments. It’s a great introduction to Joel’s newer work with DataDyne.
Thanks so much Peter for referencing Joel’s keynote! I just started to listen and will get through all seven of the segments for sure.
The style of writing is very familiar to me. Have you written guest posts for other blogs?