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Remember Keep a Child Alive’s project to buy an iPhone and auction it on eBay to raise funds? Well, they’ve managed to sell it for $100,000! The buyer also received 2 Jawbone Bluetooth headsets, 2 round-trip domestic plane tickets, 2 VIP passes to the Black Ball, and of course tons of good-will. The “child-helping iPhone” will be personalized with a voice mail greeting from Alicia Keys and presented by the R&B star at the organization’s Black Ball honoring Bono on October 25th in New York City. All in all, with a single bid, the buyer managed to “save thousands of lives in Africa,” according to the NGO.
I find this as a great example of how NGOs can be entrepreneurial too. Keep a Child Alive activists waited in line for 4 days at Apple’s Soho location to purchase the first iPhone, while talking with media and spreading their message across the world — all in order to help others. Nice!
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
