Frontline SMS

Overview of the digital health solution

FrontlineSMS was one of the first platforms to help harness the power of mobile technology for social change. Having seen how SMS was widely used in sub-saharan Africa in 2004, our Founder Ken Banks built and launched the first prototype of FrontlineSMS in 2005. Our first official user was the Kubatana Trust, in Zimbabwe. Interest in the platform grew rapidly, and we created the kiwanja Foundation, now the Social Impact Foundation, to house our work. In 2008, FrontlineSMS became open-source and began to see focussed sector-specific application as FrontlineSMS:Medic and FrontlineSMS:Credit began. In late 2009, FrontlineSMS hired its first in-house developer. By the end of 2009, FrontlineSMS had been downloaded 4,605 times and we had been awarded a Silicon Valley Tech Award for our work.

P4PPP Framework - Component Area

Protection

Promotion

Knowledge

Prevention

Operational Language

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Software version

Release Year

2010

Operational language

English

Internationalisation

No

License Type

Non commercial licence

License Details

Contact Details

Contact name of owner/ representative

Contact email

info@frontlinesms.com

Current team members

Other key members

Country of origin

Kenya

Project Links

https://www.frontlinesms.com/platform

Other key partnerships types

Other key partnerships (details)

https://www.frontlinesms.com/platform

https://www.frontlinesms.com/education

https://www.frontlinesms.com/education

https://www.frontlinesms.com/education

P4PPP Framework - Detailed Area

Nature of solution