With mobile phones now globally ubiquitous (more than 5 billion subscriptions worldwide), ideas are multiplying rapidly about uses of mobile phones to address issues of health, literacy, banking, and economic development in low-income countries. Ideas about "mdevelopment" are multiplying much faster than the good ideas. Can design thinking—human-centered design—help to separate the wheat from the chaff, the merely cool from the genuinely effective uses of mobile technology to improve human well-being?

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Registration deadline is February 7, 2011.