TxtWorker (UC Berkeley)

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Big Ideas Award Celebration, May 2012Photo Credit: Blum Center

The TxtWorker team works to increase low wage workers ability to access information about social services in their community, through a mobile support project. TxtWorker is a text based bulletin that sends accurate and targeted information about social services in the area directly to a mobile phone.

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