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January 7, 2013
Poor farmers in Malawi get cash through their mobile phones
Echoing the successful approach of cash transfers to help the extremely poor find a sustainable route to self-subsistence, the WFP (World Food Programme) in Malawi has taken to helping the poorest of farmers in Malawi get cash through their cell phones. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Four ways how technology can boost African farming
According to a report by the AfDB (African Development Bank) and the World Bank, mobile phones lets Africans access services which are otherwise available only through traditional means in developed countries. This takes Africa’s ICT contribution to the GDP to as high as 7 per cent. This service can especially […]
January 7, 2013
ICTs for Agriculture in Africa
This report focuses on African agriculture, and the role that ICT tools like mobile phones and internet can play to leverage several positive actions like access to markets, strengthening of infrastructure and more. To read the report, click here.
January 7, 2013
India: AIIMS opens regional telemedicine centre in Odisha
The All India Institute of Medical Services (AIIMS), Bhubaneshwar recently helped open a telemedical centre on its campus in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha. This centre will help scale tele consultations and man power development. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Bangladesh launched national mHealth service to reach 2 million mothers by 2015
MAMA, or the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action laucnhed a national programme called ‘Aponjon’ in Bangladesh, which is an mHealth initiative aiming to reach as many as 2 million mothers in the country by 2015. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Rotary launches international telemedicine programme
The Rotary Club of Sebastopol Sunrise and the Rotary Club on Manila have collaborated to improve the healthcare access conditions in Philippines through the medium of telemedicine. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Apollo telemedicine centre launched in Myanmar
The Apollo Group of Hospitals has recently launched a telemedicine healthcare centre in Yangon, Myanmar. This service will be able to scale the access to healthcare to a number of underserved individuals in the area. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Afroindia and Apollo collaborate for telemedical units for the poor
Afroindia Medical Services Limited, a healthcare provider in Nigeria has signed an MoU with Apollo Group of Hospitals from India, who have already started instating telemedical units in Africa, to set up some 100 telemedical centres in West and East Africa. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Using games to leverage mHealth
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is offering prize money for app developers who can come up with games which can target behaviour change in the adoption of preventive healthcare measures. Research shows that well-designed and well-implemented games can motivate and support prevention. Read more here.
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