Betavine Social Exchange
Betavine Social Exchange is a mobile solutions development website aimed at making a social impact as well. Betavine Social Exchange essentially aims at connecting various NGOs striving for mobile solutions to share the various problems and challenges faced by them with their community members and developers.
The Betavine Social Exchange invites NGOs to post a challenge outlining their particular problems and needs. Betavine’s principal manager, Steve Wolak, believes that after a challenge has been posted, each and every member of the community is welcome to take part in the discussion. When a technological solution is reached by a mobile developer, he/she has to upload it to a solutions section, where Betavine’s Social Exchange partner organisations may choose to lend a hand in the project’s execution.
Betavine hopes to carry the existing mobile developing talents to the social development scenario as well, with the introduction of Social Exchange. Vodafone is an organisation which is keenly interested in utilising mobile phones for social development. Being one of the largest telecommunications network in the world (Operating in over 25 countries, also with partner networks in over 40 countries), it is not hard for Vodafone to make a heavy social impact with the resources possessed by it. Notable social contributions by the Vodafone Foundation include funding the UN Foundation’s Technology Project and the m-Health Alliance as well. It has been actively financing m-Health projects in and around South Africa as well.
