 Mobile technology is having a revolutionary impact in the developing world. Today I introduce LIVES which is a collaborative project of the Commonwealth of Learning and the University of British Columbia, UBC. Its aim is to improve the lives and the livelihoods of rural people by helping them learn their way to greater prosperity. LIVES is an acronym for learning through interactive voice educational system and computer scientists at UBC have joined a mobile phone network to a learning management system. This makes it possible to send out audio messages in ways that allow individual interaction but can operate at scale. In one application, 6,000 women in India who earn their livings by rearing goats receive four to six short audio messages each day giving advice on how better to feed and care for their goats. Many of these women are not literate and the messages are in the local language or dialect. When each woman receives the message she can respond to a short quiz which allows the LMS to assess the effectiveness of the system or she can reply with a comment or question which will be picked up and replied to by an expert. So what are the advantages? First of course the system reaches the women where they are often in the field herding their goats. Second the messages can be customized for different purposes for different dialects and languages or for different types of goat rearing for wool for meat for milk. Third the very fact of owning the mobile phone empowers each woman who can also use it for personal purposes. Now we all know how difficult it is to assess the effectiveness of learning for development but here we took a shortcut by studying the goats. A large-scale study by a veterinary expert showed that the goats being reared by the women using lives were bigger, healthier and had more kids than goats being reared by women who were not in the program. Healthier and more fertile goats mean greater prosperity for these women and their families. So the Commonwealth of Learning and the University of British Columbia are proud to have developed advanced technology which is substantially enhancing the lives of poor rural women. Lives improves lives.