Sarvodaya Fusion | Sarvodaya ICT4D Movements
The e-Empowerment of Rural Communities
On September 11th Friday, Sarvodaya-Fusion launched an online trading platform named FarmerNet (www.farmer.lk) to streamline the trading of produce by small scale farmers. The initiative uses mobile phones to connect buyers and sellers through a virtual trading floor using SMS technology. The process is very simple; a seller sends a SMS with information on available quantity, expected price, and quality…
Measuring Social Impact of Fusion (Nov, 2010) What is the social impact of Fusion? How do we measure them? What are the tools to measure them? How to ensure methodological rigour? Fusion team (together with eNovation) has spent a lot of time and effort, over last two years to answer these questions. With SROI calculations, we learned, that every US$1 we spent…