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What do FrontlineSMS and EpiSurveyor have in common?
Ken Banks, creator of the terrific FrontlineSMS text messaging software, has some great thoughts today on why deep knowledge of on-the-ground circumstances is important to make great software. And he points out that technologists usually have much lower understanding of development problems than the development specialists who've been studying those problems for years, or the on-the-ground folks who have been working on those problems (in health, in agriculture, etc) for years:
Are mobile phones a nutritional supplement?
As we all know by now, mobile phone use is skyrocketing. In Columbia, for example, there are more mobile subscribers per 100 inhabitants than in the US (92 vs 87 as of 2008 data)! And in Africa, about 40% of the population owns a mobile phone – from essentially zero ownership 10 years ago.
There is a lot of talk these days about "mHealth", but there's another way that mobiles are affecting health: as a labor-saving device.
Making mHealth Boring
Just read an article from the Times of India entitled "New tech to keep tabs on disease", where the new tech in question is the collection of data for health on mobile phones.
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