Reminds me of a very cool paper I heard about at ACM Dev 2014. "A Mobile Application for Interactive Voice Forums:Design and Pilot Deployment in Rural India"

Reminds me of a very cool paper I heard about at ACM Dev 2014. "A Mobile Application for Interactive Voice Forums:Design and Pilot Deployment in Rural India" http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/thies/dev14-cgnet-app.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/thies/dev14-cg... Researchers built a landline/cellphone based social network. It could be especially useful for rural areas with low literacy rate.