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What is in USAID’s First Ever Digital Development Strategy?

What is in USAID’s First Ever Digital Development Strategy?

Published on: Oct 24 2019 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on What is in USAID’s First Ever Digital Development Strategy?
Building on decades of USAID leadership in digital development, soon USAID will launch its first Digital Strategy (2019-2024), an Agency-wide vision for development...
Apply Now: $200,000 in Financing for Digital Health Startups in East Africa

Apply Now: $200,000 in Financing for Digital Health Startups in East Africa

Published on: Oct 21 2019 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Apply Now: $200,000 in Financing for Digital Health Startups in East Africa
Many digital health technology entrepreneurs struggle to attract start-up financing and this can inhibit their ability to grow. At best they may underperform their...
Apply Now: $900,000 for Early Reader Digital Books in Local Languages

Apply Now: $900,000 for Early Reader Digital Books in Local Languages

Published on: Oct 14 2019 by Wayan Vota - 2 Comments
Building on a child’s language foundation, literacy leads to better health, broadens employment opportunities, and creates safer and more stable societies. However,...
New WHO Guidelines on Economic Evaluations of Digital Health Solutions

New WHO Guidelines on Economic Evaluations of Digital Health Solutions

Published on: Oct 09 2019 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on New WHO Guidelines on Economic Evaluations of Digital Health Solutions
Digital health interventions are often very dynamic, evolving through several stages of maturity during which the monitoring and evaluation needs of the intervention...
Apply Now: $850,000 NIH Grant Funding for Your mHealth Research Ideas

Apply Now: $850,000 NIH Grant Funding for Your mHealth Research Ideas

Published on: Oct 07 2019 by Wayan Vota - 12 Comments
The enormous potential for mobile technology to transform health care, personal health management, and basic health research has led to the rapid development of...
Please Join Us: 2019 OpenHIE Community Meeting in Ethiopia

Please Join Us: 2019 OpenHIE Community Meeting in Ethiopia

Published on: Oct 02 2019 by Wayan Vota - 3 Comments
Please join us at the 2019 OpenHIE Community Meeting on 4-8 November 2019, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This years’ theme is data for decision making. The global...
Apply Now: $170,000 to Study Digital Financial Services for Health Systems

Apply Now: $170,000 to Study Digital Financial Services for Health Systems

Published on: Sep 30 2019 by Wayan Vota - 2 Comments
Financial protection is at the core of universal health coverage and is one of the final coverage goals of the Sustainable Development Goals. Financial protection...
Please Join Us: 2019 Global Digital Health Forum

Please Join Us: 2019 Global Digital Health Forum

Published on: Sep 25 2019 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Please Join Us: 2019 Global Digital Health Forum
Please RSVP Now to join us for the 2019 Global Digital Health Forum on December 9-11 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center in Rockville,...
Apply Now: $250,000 Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowships for Open Innovation

Apply Now: $250,000 Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowships for Open Innovation

Published on: Sep 23 2019 by Wayan Vota - 8 Comments
Mark Shuttleworth, achieved great commercial success by building a commercial enterprise on Open Source software that was by its nature available for anyone to...
Please Register Now: 2019 CGIAR Big Data in Agriculture Convention

Please Register Now: 2019 CGIAR Big Data in Agriculture Convention

Published on: Sep 12 2019 by Wayan Vota - 2 Comments
The CGIAR Big Data in Agriculture platform is where information becomes power to predict, prescribe, and produce more food, more sustainably. It democratizes decades...