Frontline Press Coverage

We are constantly amazed and inspired by our users - the people who use our Frontline tools to make a difference in their communities. From combating malaria to connecting people to health services to assisting farmers in rural Zambia, users have found countless ways to apply our products to their context. Press coverage has included a mix of stories about both our users and our Team. You can find examples of the impact of our products around the world at the links below.

Using text messaging as weapon in malaria war

Cambodian efforts to contain the spread of malaria have been strengthened by a pilot project using text messaging and web-based technology

Using FrontlineSMS, VMSs can now report in real time all malaria cases in their villages to the Malaria Information and Alert System in Phnom Penh with a simple text message, including the patient's name, age, location and type of virus.

Leapfrogging the Internet

When it comes to changing the world, text messaging might not be the first thing to come to mind. 

But a free, downloadable application known as FrontlineSMS is allowing nonprofit organizations in remote areas of the world to harness mobile technology to affect the world in a positive way. Ken Banks developed the software, now used by people from Africa to Asia, at a kitchen table in a Finnish forest. Banks is the founder of kiwanja.net, an

Look Ma, No Internet! Free Software Gives Text-Messaging New Reach

Of the estimated 5 billion cell phone users, most of them live in low and middle income countries, and many will never have access to a laptop. But they text – a lotIn the six years since the UK native first developed Frontline SMS, an open source software that turns a laptop into an internet-free communication hub, it has been used in more than 50 countries by thousands of organizations.