At Akvo.org we are starting with a very practical future. We will be using SMS/MMS messages as part of our reporting platform from field projects. This will be implemented during the spring on our platform. We are envisaging to have verifiable photographs, videos, messages, GPS coordinates, timestamps, in future more sophisticated implementations, that will allow a number of interesting things: - Has a particular type of insect pest arrived in an area? Can be verified from a photograph. - Has a donated irrigation system been installed? - Has an irrigation system broken? How has it broken? Specialists can analyse photographs. - Has a large scale government supported rain water harvesting programme maintenance programme been successful? Provide support in pictures and locations. There are of course many other type of questions which can be answered by verifiable photographs and locations etc. With widespread use of these type of applications, they can also have "dual use". Verified human rights abuses, invasions, riots, by picture, location and timestamp, could be a very powerful tool. Best regards Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson http://akvo.org/