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Mahiri Mobile Delivering Lifesaving Healthcare in Rural Ghana
Doctors at hospitals in Tamale and Nsawam, Ghana, are delivering new levels of lifesaving healthcare to remote areas of the country without traveling to see patients in person. Mahiri Mobile Services of Accra has outfitted nurses in rural villages in with wireless tablets that deliver high quality, live medical-grade video(TM) back to the doctors in Tamale and Nsawam for medical advice.
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Government partnerships essential to scale mhealth projects
Want to scale your mHealth solution? Mobile health implementers say the key is to engage with the government early and often so that they will eventually take over the project and bring it to scale.
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The Best of 2013: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Mobile money as a retail payment system
You may be tired of hearing about mobile money, but the world is not. For instance, the GSMA keeps ramping up its count of mobile money deployments across the world: today’s number is 191. Let me dig under the hype and give a personal assessment of where things are - be it good, bad or ugly.
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Tweeting to Better Financial Products : What USAID learned in its pilot project to harness real-time data to improve entrepreneur loans.
To gain a better understanding of the digital footprint of loan beneficiaries, USAID interviewed a small sample group about their usage of various digital tools, and asked them about the terms they use when talking about accessing loans.
he agency then used those terms and keywords to build filters to monitor social media chatter about financial inclusion, and deployed monitors through Twitter and Google search trends.- Categories
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Crowd-sourcing Nepal’s rural healthcare
An Internet campaign to solicit funds for the medical procedures of individual patients in rural Nepal is increasing donor awareness and healthcare provider accountability, public health practitioners say.
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Engineering Answers on ‘DEMAND’: A new global review of engineering successes in development
At the bottom of many a development money pit is poor design. Fortunately, engineers can help prevent funding sinkholes from opening in the first place. With that in mind, we’re pleased to announce the online debut of a new magazine for engineers and the global development community, DEMAND, ASME’s Global Development Review.
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High-Speed Recovery: Twenty years after the genocide, Rwanda looks to a high-tech future
Almost 20 years have passed since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when politicians, doctors, miners, merchants, and farmers killed about 800,000 of their fellow politicians, doctors, miners, merchants, and farmers in the East African nation of just 12 million. To this day, the 100-day horror remains one of the most appallingly efficient cases of systematic murder in modern history, and Rwanda, at least in the eyes of the West, remains synonymous with the chaos of its not-too-distant past.
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The Doctor is (Checking) In … Via Mobile: Pesinet combines apps, mircoinsruance with old-fashioned grassroots education
In Mali and Burkina Faso, an NGO uses a three-prong approach designed to get families to bring their children to local health centers starting with the earliest symptoms.
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