--- title: "Drupal and the Mobile World · Appnovation" url: "https://www.appnovation.com/insights/drupal-and-mobile-world" description: "Insights from the NetSquared Conference on how non-profits use mobile technology and Drupal to power their causes." --- Article # Drupal and the Mobile World [![](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/ey850001/production/5cf26a1c51c12e7d10c812380e4396a09f9da5b8-800x600.png?w=88&auto=format) Arnold Leung CEO](/people/arnold-leung.md) May 27, 2009 2 min read ![Appnovation Blog Default Header](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/ey850001/production/9efe1c26d9584ecfb3dfef5a63e698bf4567d305-1440x600.jpg?w=1400&auto=format) I am currently at the NetSquared Conference in San Jose where we are exploring how non profits can use mobile technologies for their causes. Some of these non profit mobile applications include: 1) [Digital Democracy's Handheld Human Rights (opens in new window)](http://www.dtwo.org/): a tool for allowing human rights activists to learn about human right abuses as they happen via SMS messaging. 2) [SeeClickFix (opens in new window)](http://www.seeclickfix.com/): a mobile application for users to report non emergency policy issues such as graffiti and use the power of the crowd to voice these issues to the appropriate government bodies. I was looking at how [Drupal can be developed](/services/drupal-development.md) and used to power some of these applications. Even though Drupal is developed primarily as a web content management system, there has been a few recent changes that allow for Drupal to power mobile web sites. Some information about [implementing mobile Drupal websites](/services/drupal-development.md) are: 1) [Drupal Mobile Modules (opens in new window)](http://drupal.org/project/mobile): allows for the creation of non styled version of node content. 2) [Using Multi-Site to have mobile versions of a complete Drupal site. (opens in new window)](http://mobiforge.com/developing/story/creating-mobile-sites-drupal-using-multisites) The challenge in creating mobile web sites is that there are a lot more browsers that need to be supported and that a lot of browsers do not follow the web standards. At the conference, we discussed how SMS technologies may be a better solution than Mobile web sites as SMS is used by more people in the world. Since [Drupal support](/services/drupal-development.md)s web services such as XML RPC and SOAP, it is not that challenging to have a Drupal application communicate with the SMS gateways. If you are looking for a free SMS gateway, [Tatango (opens in new window)](http://www.tatango.com/) is a great option. [![](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/ey850001/production/5cf26a1c51c12e7d10c812380e4396a09f9da5b8-800x600.png?w=128&auto=format) Arnold Leung CEO · Appnovation](/people/arnold-leung.md) ## Keep reading [![What is Sovereign AI](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/ey850001/production/a5889abdd5e80376912546622e046e3fbef234b4-2496x1664.png?w=640&auto=format)](/insights/what-is-open-source-sovereign-ai.md) Article · 7 min AI ### [What Is Open Source, Sovereign AI?](/insights/what-is-open-source-sovereign-ai.md) Every company is encouraging more AI, and almost every AI bill is climbing. Sovereign AI is about two kinds of control: over your data and over your costs. Here's why open source sits at its foundation. [Iain MacNeil](/people/iain-macneil.md) Article [![AI-first experience design](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/ey850001/production/8bbc2418e87924ef10f36115478a2e10d5bed95e-1584x624.jpg?w=640&auto=format)](/insights/how-build-ai-first-experience-without-throwing-out-everything-youve-already-built.md) Article · 6 min AI Sep 10, 2026 ### [How to Build an AI-First Experience Without Throwing Out Everything You've Already Built](/insights/how-build-ai-first-experience-without-throwing-out-everything-youve-already-built.md) Users now expect a direct answer, not a list of links to click through. Here's how organizations can layer an AI-First experience onto their existing website or app, in weeks rather than years. [Andrew Douglas](/people/andrew-douglas.md) Article [![What Becomes Possible When AI Can Read All the Data](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/ey850001/production/c28ab0bd26753421ee42937e13adc7a7f19b47f0-1296x510.jpg?w=640&auto=format)](/insights/what-becomes-possible-when-ai-can-read-all-data.md) Article · 4 min AI Sep 09, 2026 ### [What Becomes Possible When AI Can Read All the Data](/insights/what-becomes-possible-when-ai-can-read-all-data.md) Most of the world's data has never been analyzed, only sampled. AI changes that. How AI-ready data platforms unlock questions no one could ask before. [Appnovation](/people/appnovation.md) Article ## Get the thinking, *before everyone else.* One considered email a month. New essays, field notes from live engagements, and the occasional strong opinion. No noise.