Mobile for development: how public-private partnerships between telecommunications and humanitarian agencies can save lives

The infographic, released by the Aid and International Development Forum (AIDF) in preparation for their upcoming "AIDF Asia: Aid & Response Summit" in June 2015, visualizes the growing ubiquity of the mobile phone in the developing world. The infographic explains how public-private partnerships between telecommunications and humanitarian agencies can be used to reduce disaster risk and increase resilience. The infographic explains that the mobile is able to send out pre-disaster warnings, display post-disaster information, exchange information from a distance, do a mobile data analysis and geo-mapping of affected people, transfer money as form of aid and to trace reconnect displaced persons.