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Using broadband web Using broadband web apps to harness apps to harness
mobile phones in the mobile phones in the developing worlddeveloping world
Joel Selanikio, MDDataDyne.org
Source: Blycroft Ltd
Mobile Penetration in Mobile Penetration in Africa 2002-2012Africa 2002-2012
Broadband
Lots of mobile and a little broadband
How can we harness How can we harness this world of “lots of this world of “lots of
mobile, a little mobile, a little broadband?broadband?
How can we harness How can we harness this world of “lots of this world of “lots of
mobile, a little mobile, a little broadband?broadband?
DataDyne’s EpiSurveyor
Name
Age
# children
So we built a web app for public health
OnlineForm
Creator
Report
Kenya MOH officers in Nairobi with broadband
web access design forms online
Kenya MOH workers
throughout the country with just a
simple phone collect data and
upload it over the network in real
time
Rather than wait 6-12 months for data
entry to occur before analysis
they have real-time data collection,
immediate analysis, and same-day
action
Connecting the many with mobile & the
few with broadband
Almost 1000 users from 500 organizations in 100 countries have
filled out 12,000 forms
Wall Street Journal Tech Innovation Award
Vaccines provided, supplies managed, outbreaks tracked, lives
saved
Since EpiSurveyor.org was launched in
June
We can apply the lessons of Gmail and Facebook to use a little
broadband to coordinate a lot of simple mobile
We can build those applications once and scale them worldwide
The Lessons
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