Happy to add a piece on "Mobile phones and the power of data collection" to Ken Banks' "Mobile Message" series at the National Geographic.

For too long, the world’s information (and the world’s tools for collecting and understanding and using that information) was limited to the richer countries. Now the world has changed so much that a tool created in Kenya [EpiSurveyor] can benefit gorillas in Uganda, mothers in Central America, school children in Zambia, and a hospital in Washington DC. And all because of these common miracles – the Internet and the mobile phone that are binding us together as never before.

Click here for the full article.