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Ethnos Project Announcements

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The Ethnos Project recently completed a proto-type museum kiosk designed for the Ndakinna Education Center. The kiosk provides an interactive introduction to storytelling and the Native American oral traditions of the Northeast. Learn more...

The Ethnos Project is proud to be developing the web site for one of the newest members of the FrontlineSMS family: FrontlineSMS:Legal! Visit http://legal.frontlineSMS.com.

Mark Oppenneer of The Ethnos Project is co-creating and co-teaching an undergraduate course involving heritage, sustainability, and development for fall 2010. Funds permitting, we'll be taking a trip to Calcutta, India.

The Ethnos Project is proud to announce that CreditSMS is now FrontlineSMS:Credit. Welcome to the FrontlineSMS family! Visit http://credit.frontlineSMS.com.

Mark Oppenneer of The Ethnos Project has finished an ethnography of the Saratoga Springs Racetrack Backstretch Employees and their use of the Backstretch Global Communications Center. Read it here >>

Ethnos Web Design & Development Consulting is learning FrontlineSMS in preparation for the rebranding of CreditSMS as FrontlineSMS:Credit.

CreditSMS gets a write-up in The Washington Post: "Start-Up Aims To Facilitate Loans With a Global Reach D.C. Trio Hopes to Aid Poor, Rural Communities". Shout outs to Benjamin Lyon, Scott England and Mark Oppenneer.

Ushahidi: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information

The Ethnos Project is field testing an installation of Ushahidi (an open source application for crowdsourcing crisis information) for possible use in tracking the upcoming election in Guyana.

Mark Oppenneer of the The Ethnos Project virtually attended - and tweeted live from - the "Communication and Human Development: The Freedom Connection?" forum sponsored by Sponsored by Canada's International Development Research Centre and Harvard's Berkman Center.

The Ethnos Project is now on Facebook.

During a recent podcast about Social Media in International Development (hosted by Nancy White of Full Circle Associates), Bill Anderson lists Twitter feeds he follows... Nice to hear The Ethnos Project on the list [about half way through] -- thanks, Bill Anderson!

Ethnos Web Design & Development Consulting is proudly serving as Mobile Money Africa's web development consultant. Mobile Money Africa is Africa's leading online resource for mobile financial inclusion.

Announcing Ethnos Web Design & Development Consulting, an offshoot of the The Ethnos Project. As a course of my networking, I find more and more that people are asking for my services under the auspices of TEP. Now I can provide those services without brand confusion.

The Ethnos Project is proud to announce the new MMT Africa Directory at CreditSMS. Developed by TEP, this directory of Mobile Money Transfer and Airtime Transfer services across Africa should prove to be a great resource.

The Ethnos Project is now a proud partner of CreditSMS. We are building their web site and custom coding their recently unveiled MMT Africa Directory of Mobile Money Transfer and Airtime Transfer services across Africa.

Mark Oppenneer of TEP is developing the Sustainability Entrepreneurship site and Sustainability Studies program in the Science & Technology Studies Department at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

The Ethnos Project has just become a news source for NewsForDev, a project of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) that employs RSS and e-mail news technology to bring knowledge and information to agricultural development practitioners in ACP countries.

Mark Oppenneer attended the Open Development Barcamp at the World Bank in Washington, DC on July 10, 2009. View pictures, video of Owen Barder's opening address, and information about the OpenDevCamp community portal and about the Barcamp in general.