Tigerspike Works with UN to Use Mobile to Address World Hunger
- Thursday, March 6th, 2014
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Tigerspike has worked with the UN to use its mobile expertise to improve the World Food Programmes (WFP) effort to address world hunger.
The Tigerspike Foundation brought together 200 staff from the company to help design a digital strategy in just three days that would make registration and distribution of food faster and more secure. The project covered areas like device strategy, data management, biometrics and battery life concerns
While much of the WFPs work to date, which reaches more than 90m people, has focused on delivering real food, the organisation expects that a third of its assistance will be done via digital food by next year. Tigerspike has recommended using mobile phones to deliver e-vouchers by text or the rolling out of smart cards. 
There are still 842m people in the world without enough food to eat.
