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The organizationâs prevailing hypothesis is that as more people in developing countries add content to the Internet that is delivered in their own languages, relevant to their lives, and is accessible to all levels of education, the increased demand for the Internet in these areas will drive increased investment by telecom companies, bringing down data costs to a point that is affordable to more people in the developing world.
In this dissertation, I present the design, implementation and evaluation of CAM â a mobile application framework designed to address the information needs of the rural developing world. Beginning with a two-month participatory design study, including users with varying levels of education, I propose some general guidelines for user interface and system design in this context. Motivated by these guidelines, I present CAM. CAM applications are accessed by capturing barcodes on paper forms using the mobile phone camera, or entering numeric strings with the keypad. Supporting one-step navigation, direct linkage to paper practices and offline multi-media interaction, CAM is uniquely adapted to rural device, user and infrastructure constraints. To demonstrate the usability of this framework, I implement and evaluate several distinct CAM-based applications (one of which has already been commercially deployed). I also provide preliminary motivation for fourteen other applications that could be implemented with the same, or similar, approach.
People are collecting tens of thousands of records worth of data every month, and more than 99% of them are doing it for free and without any need for us to visit the site (or even communicate with the users: it's that simple to use)! Â No consultants, no MOU: just great software available online.
Internet expansion across Africa: the plan.
âTechnology â no matter how well designed â is only a magnifier of human intent and capacity. It is not a substitute. If you have a foundation of competent, well intentioned people, then appropriate technology can amplify their capacity and lead to amazing achievementsâ. - Kentaro Toyama, University of California
The U.S. is losing ground as a leader in medical innovation, while emerging markets in countries such as Brazil, China and India are making gains in the industry, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report, the Wall Street Journal's "Health Blog" reports. Â
The report says that medical technology innovators increasingly are looking outside the U.S. to garner clinical data and registration for new products. Eventually, U.S. consumers could be the last to benefit from medical technology advances because developing nations are becoming market leaders for new health care delivery tools, according to the report.
Plan released a new report called ICT Enabled Development: Using ICT strategically to support Plan's work. The report is part of an on-going process by Plan Finland in collaboration with Plan USA to support Plan's country offices in Africa to use ICTs strategically and effectively in their development work.
It was written by Hannah Beardon and builds on the Mobiles for Development Guide that Plan Finland produced (also written by Hannah) in 2009.
The ICT sector is one of the fastest growing on the African continent. Fueled by heavy investments, telecommunication infrastructures have improved drastically. Over the past five years, Africans have embraced ICT innovations fast especially in the mobile telecommunications and in the IT segments.
The next wave that is about to hit the continent will include new infrastructures such as broadband fibre optic cables and data centres, telecoms added value services and IT innovations. Here is a review of 2010 and key trends to prepare for 2011.
According to research conducted by the Ministry of Health and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), who developed the technology, the time it took for clinics to receive test results from reference labs dropped from an average of about three weeks to about three days after the printers were introduced. Research showed that this, in turn, reduced the time it took to start infants on antiretroviral treatment as part of national PMTCT HIV transmission services by about four months. The number of infants starting treatment also increased by 60 percent.
WHO releases The Atlas of eHealth Country Profiles: Intended as a reference to the state of eHealth development in Member States, this unique publication presents data on the 114 WHO Member States that participated in the 2009 global survey on eHealth. Individual country profiles feature 50 key indicators in eHealth foundation actions as well as specific eHealth applications.
The objectives of the country profiles are to describe the current status of the use of ICT for health in Member States; and provide information concerning the progress of eHealth applications in these countries.
The World Bank Apps for Development Competition: check out some of the final submissions here!
Though Haiti is struggling with the disastrous effects of last year's earthquake and ranks as the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, it is rich with cell phone users. Over 37 percent of Haitians have their own phone, and every Haitian household access to a cell phone, either owned or shared.
Immediately after the earthquake, text messages were lifesaving and served many purposes. Rescue workers relied on text messages for locations, health condition, and survivor identification. Trapped individuals texted rescuers as they waited for help to arrive.
The WellComm App, released at no cost, is a paradigm changing, gateway app. WellCommâs innovation is that it works with ALL existing resources. Its open architecture connects the patchwork of incompatible apps with other apps and with electronic and personal health records (HER and PHRs). The WellComm system does not force the replacement or change of existing systems or technology, but instead enables these disparate, siloed systems & resources to work together. WellComm can be used by Healthcare Professionals, Caregivers, Researchers and Individuals to advance and extend health and wellness.
The Millennium Villages Project and Ericssonâs Consumer Lab collaborated to investigate the baseline conditions for enhanced connectivity and integrating mobile telephony in MVP sites. It is hypothesized that this will accelerate the achievement of the MDGs through improved communication and availability of information. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, the research team aimed to assess the effects of network strengthening and strategic integration in the context of a rural village in a low-income African country.
A recent study published in the Malaria Journal evaluated the use of mobile phone-based text messaging to improve antimalarial inventory management (http://www.malariajournal.com/content/9/1/298). The study called âSMS for Life,â was carried out by the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, The Roll Back Malaria Partnership, Novartis Pharma AG, Vodafone and IBM. It was carried out in three rural districts in three different malaria-endemic zones of Tanzania. The objective was to record and communicate stock levels of artemisinin-based combination therapies and injectable quinine between remote health facilities and Zonal Medical Stores. On average, stock reports were reported daily and the text-based inventory data was found to be 94% accurate. In one district, all antimalarial stockouts were eliminated within 8 weeks of the 21-week study and overall, ACT stock increased by 64% and quinine stocks increased by 36% in the three districts.
The Government of Mozambique (GoM) has received a Credit from the International Development Association (IDA) toward the cost of the Mozambique eGovernment and Communications Infrastructure Project (MEGCIP) and intends to apply part of the proceeds for contracting of services and infrastructure to establish the âMaputo ICT Incubation Programâ. Other complementary funds to be used in this project will be obtained from the Finnish Government, channeled through infoDev.
The Internet is a powerful source of information. Google's strategy in Africa is to get more users online by developing an accessible, relevant and sustainable internet ecosystem. * Reducing access as a barrier to all potential users * Making the Internet relevant and useful to Africans * Helping strengthen an Internet ecosystem in Africa that is vibrant, and sustainable and self-sufficient in the long-term