Just in case you are not quite sure what the term "empowerment" means, Ken Banks who built Frontline SMS has useful examples which can be seen here.
To me, the empowered includes NGO fieldworkers in Afghanistan who receive daily security messages and alerts. During a recent Taliban attack FrontlineSMS was...
kiwanja.net launches its next-generation text messaging platform for the
grassroots non-profit (NGO) community. FrontlineSMS continues to unlock the potential of mobile technology for non-profits working for positive social and environmental change throughout the developing world.
kiwanja.net's work is innovatively and uniquely centred around three complementary areas:
Ken Banks, founder of Frontline SMS and Kiwanja.net is attending the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Ken is the kind of guy that always manages to find or build something special around mobile phone technology wherever he goes. On this occasion he discovers a mobile phone without a screen. Whats the big deal?