MobiChange Team

The MobiChange founding team combines a rare set of skill and experiences: (1) expertise in the emerging markets in Asia and Africa, (2) understanding of the emerging mobile social networking space, and (3) experience in using mobile and social media applications to engage non-profits and grassroots communities.

Ken Banks runs kiwanja.net, an organisation that helps grassroots non-profits around the world figure out how to use mobile technology in their social change work. Ken's FrontlineSMS project has previously received grants from William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, MacArthur Foundation and the Open Society Institute. For more, see www.kiwanja.net.

Dina Mehta is a partner at Mosoci (research for web 2.0 strategy) and Explore Research & Consultancy (qualitative market research). Dina has contributed to building several communities on the internet, such as Worldchanging, Tsunami Help, KatrinaHelp, Asia Quake Help, SkypeJournal and Global Voices Online. For more, see www.dinamehta.com.

Will White is the lead developer for the SMS Framework in Drupal. He also works with Development Seed where he build social applications.

Gaurav Mishra is the 2008-09 Yahoo! Fellow in International Values and Communications Technology at Georgetown University where he will be teaching a graduate course on the use of social media in business, government and development in Spring 2009. Gaurav has extensive previous experience in the Indian consumer market. For more, see www.gauravonomics.com.