We have identified a variety of commercial and educational institutions to partner with in order to help realize the technical and logistical challenges of this project.

Firefly: the first cell phone designed for kids

Google Maps

National Geographic

• the Genographic Project, an interactive atlas of the human journey
• curriculum planning
• RSS feed from their Kid News to the Mobile Mapping Museum site
• they also have a Venture Fund which might be a good source for seed money

Qualcomm Technologies: products include gpsOne, the most widely deployed positioning technology in the world today, opening a vast market for revenue-generating entertainment and security-based wireless applications and services

TheMathWorks: a developer and supplier of technical computing software, with customers in 100 different countries, whose products include The Mapping Toolbox

Vocel: a publisher of premium-branded applications for mobile phones, which recently announced a partnership with Random House to deliver educational content via cell phones and has partnerships with Verizon and Cingular

Yahoo 360: Yahoo’s new blogging, photo sharing, chat/social community site.

An interactive travel site like Lonely Planet or Rough Guides that might be interested in creating a special section for kids

Any cell phone manufacturer with developing GPS-enabled devices