Technology is definitely key in CfA’s work helping government become more engaging, user-friendly and effective, but I believe that there’s also a secret sauce that makes it work—empathy.

The SafeNight app, now in limited pilot, which uses crowdsourcing techniques to help domestic violence organizations provide victims with temporary emergency shelter, often the first step to escaping a dangerous situation at home.

Health for America—a Vodafone Americas Foundation partner—sparks youth.

Mobile technology’s advances are part of what Fay Arjomandi, Vodafone Americas Foundation Chair, calls an “ecosystem tsunami” of change that has helped transform the world.

The Foundation’s Wireless Innovation Project “promotes innovation and increase the development of mobile and wireless technology for a better world.”

Competition Has Awarded More than $2 Million for Wireless and Mobile Innovations for Social Impact.

The cellphone has become more of a tool and less of a toy, especially among the poor, and those trying to help them, in emerging markets. It helps deliver, via text message, water, energy, financial services, health care and even education.

Over the past decade, we have entered the Age of Big Data, where digital technology allows people around the world to transmit information at an unthinkable rate—2.5 quintillion (2.5×1018) bytes of data per day.

Vodafone Americas Foundation’s Wireless Innovation Project CompetitionTM awards $600,000 to innovators of transformational technology.

Finalists to compete today for coveted Wireless Innovation Project awards.