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The enormous potential for mobile technology to transform health care, personal health management, and basic health research has led to the rapid development of new health-related phone applications, sensors, and devices.
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Published on: Oct 03 2019 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on 10 Lessons Learned in Scaling Mobile Data Collection Processes
In the last decade, Mobile Data Collection has been used more and more by humanitarian and development organizations for situation analyses, project monitoring, follow-up of activities and vulnerable populations, among other...
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 public health community is driving interoperability in...
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 is achieved when direct payments made to obtain health services...
Published on: Sep 26 2019 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on Four Years of Dashboard Design Progress with MERL Tech Data
Data visualization (data viz) has come a long way in our MERL Tech community. Four years ago the conversation was around “so you think you want a dashboard?” which evolved to a debate on dashboards as the silver bullet...
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, Maryland.
The Global Digital Health Forum is the leading networking...
Mark Shuttleworth, achieved great commercial success by building a commercial enterprise on Open Source software that was by its nature available for anyone to use and remix. (He was also the first South African in space!)
Although...
Published on: Sep 19 2019 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on Do We Have Too Many Theories in Digital Development?
Theory of this, theory of that. It often feels as if we have a theory for everything in international development, and in ICT4D as a subset of overall development activity.
Are these theories for business development, M&E,...
In the digital age, when we face a language barrier, there are a host of internet resources to overcome it. We often rely on translation platforms, dictionary apps, Wikipedia in other languages, or the simple “click to...
Typically, an engineer’s role in addressing global poverty challenges has often been confined to the engineering problem facing community, regional or national scale service interventions. Engineers focused on product...
