When I started at DataDyne.org last April, we were just starting to test the MIP. We spent several afternoons sending and logging text messages. Imagine a room full of people talking to our developer via speakerphone and staring deliberately at their cell phones waiting for a
text message to come through.

Last Friday marked the 40th anniversary of COOPEUMO, a farming cooperative in Peumo, Chile. For the past 40 years this community has been working together to provide food for their country and a better standard of living for their families. Over four hundred small producers participate in the cooperative.