Even where journalism is thriving as a business - in places like Brazil or India - it does not always want to cover the tough topics like health and development.

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Mobile phones can help diagnose malaria in rural areas. Imagine the lives that can be saved.

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Around the world, banks, mobile network operators, and others are using innovative ways to make financial services more accessible and affordable for the poor.

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Last week in Nairobi was TEDxChange@TEDxKibera, a program of talks and discussion in the Kibera slums with a group of action-oriented people who are focused on changing the status quo. Many interesting people were in the room—from some of the mappers I've come to know from the MapKibera initiative to people from Slum Dwellers International.

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Today we announced that Digicel, Haiti’s leading cell phone company, won a $2.5 million prize for helping to make mobile money a reality in Haiti. Digicel’s service, Tcho Tcho Mobile (which is slang for money in Creole), is offering Haitians an alternative to long and costly trips to  pick up money sent by friends and family, waiting in long queues for salaries, or the insecurity of carrying cash. Haitians can now send, receive, and store money through their mobile phones without traveling to overcrowded banks or money transfer houses.

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