WishVast: Building trust and social capital using cellphones
Khanjan Mehta, Ladislaus M. Semali · 2009
This paper describes the basic concepts and operation of a cellphone-based social networking system called WishVast. WishVast is an innovation that attempts to harness the pervasiveness of cellphones in developing countries to build trust and optimize resource utilization & supply chains to facilitate people to people trade with the ultimate goal of alleviating poverty.