Mobile Technologies and Climate Change

Anjesh Tuladhar Young Innovations Pvt. Ltd.

Technology – Climate Change

Information technologies vital to tackling climate change – UN secretary general (Oct 2009)

“UN teamed up with mobile phone companies and other partners to install 5,000 new weather stations across Africa. The weather stations will monitor the impact of climate change, and when there is news, text messages will be sent immediately to farmers’ mobile phones.”

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32421&Cr=technology&Cr1

Global Mobile Statistics (2010)

90% of world population live in mobile network coverage area

Global Mobile Penetration – 5. 3 billion (77% of World population)

Mobile devices sales increased by 18.5% from 2009 to 2010

Global mobile web user – 450 million More than 300,000 apps were downloaded 10.9

billion times

Source: http://mobithinking.com

Nepal Mobile Statistics

Mobile Penetration – 38.31% Internet Penetration Rate – 10.03%

Source: NTA - MIS Report (May, 2011)

Next technology (almost) A new way to tackle old problem

Mobile

What mobile has

Communication Voice SMS

Camera GPS Internet Motion sensors Hundreds of applications...

Project Surya

Collecting climate data (Black carbon) Individuals will use the camera on the mobile phone

to capture and transmit an image containing the air filter and color chart to a server

an algorithm on the server will interpret the image of the filter to automatically compute the daily BC concentrations for that household

Researchers will use the data streams to evaluate the intervention's impact on regional and global climate change, and its impact on individual pollution exposure and public health

http://www.projectsurya.org/mobile-phone-technology/

UNICEF – Voice of Youth

How mobile based apps works?

Javarosa - Dimagi

Perfect for data collection

From an inexpensive handset, a server appliance, to the latest Android device

Where else...

Health Entertainment Business Payment Climate Change Environment Education ..... list will go on

Mobile Social Networking Nepal

To develop mobile applications community of practice

To foster competition of ideas to encourage entrepreneurship

Linkage to mobile industry professional locally internationally

http://mobilenepal.net

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