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One of the stated reasons for implementing mHealth projects is that they are more cost effective than the status quo of using paper or nothing at all to support health programming in developing countries.
Yet there is one...
Published on: Nov 01 2018 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on 9 Lessons Learned in Rolling Out Dimagi’s Mobile Device Management Pilot
Enumerators, who are people like you and I, like to download Candy Crush, Facebook, YouTube videos, mobile screen savers, to their mobile phones, and use up significant battery life and data on those apps. This can be frustrating...
Published on: Oct 31 2018 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on 5 Challenges to Scaling Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Global Health
While unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) have a dynamic feature set and capabilities that make them a potential game changer in global development and humanitarian use, the adoption of UAV technology in global health...
Farmers in low-income countries struggle to protect their crops from pests and disease like the Fall Armyworm. They are unprepared and ill-equipped to respond effectively due to:
Inconsistent access to crop protection products.
Inadequate...
Around the world 250 million children under five didn’t have their birth registered, yet not having something as straightforward as a birth certificate can have serious consequences.
In Sub-Saharan Africa alone over...
Let us all celebrate the amazing transition that’s happening in health systems across low- and middle-income countries. Increasingly, data previously locked in paper systems are now available electronically for distribution...
Published on: Oct 22 2018 by Josh Woodard - Comments Off on Please RSVP Now: Digital Technologies for Resilience Workshop
The Digital Technologies for Resilience Workshop is back for its second year in Bangkok, Thailand on November 27-28, 2018 to identify digital technologies that have the potential to enhance resilience outcomes, particularly...
As we know all too well, the pace of progress is falling far short of both the desperate needs in the world and the ambitions of the Sustainable Development Goals. Today, it’s hard to find anyone who disputes the need...
Millions of people face immense basic needs supply challenges on a daily basis. Food, water, sanitation, waste management, education, healthcare, and mobility are too expensive or not available across the developing world.
Yet,...
The Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA) approach uses age- and stage-based messaging directed toward pregnant women, new mothers and families to foster behavior change and improve maternal and child health outcomes.
What...
