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Mobile for Development Impact - Mobile for Development Impact site offers data, analysis, and insights on mobile in emerging markets, to inform investment and design decisions and to support digital inclusion. Information includes:·An overview of which network operators are active in a country, and network coverage (2G, 3G or 4G) where available ·Details of Mobile for Development products and services within each country MORE
ORB by mPowering - ORB offers frontline health workers and trainers access to quality assured openly licensed content that can be used on mobile devices and shared virally amongst communities.ORB has three unique features:Brings into one space quality-assured, multimedia materials from multiple content developers, with a focus on maternal and child health.Adaptation of existing content ORB aims to reduce the MORE
mBCC Field Guide: A Resource for Developing Mobile Behavior Change Programs - This resource helps users guide the design of mobile applications for health and provides insights about what works in mobile behavior change communication (mBCC). Compiled by Abt Associates, the guide examines what is known about the power of mobile communication tools to influence health behaviors for consumers and health care providers. Why it helps with planning: This is a planning MORE
Mobile Technology Handbook - This handbook is a comprehensive resource for getting started with mobile data collection. It provides guidance on how to develop a mobile data collection strategy, how to compare and select mobile platforms, and case studies on how mobile technology has been used for data collection in development programs. You can use the handbook as a reference or make it the foundation for a workshop to spread MORE
mHealth Evidence - mHealthEvidence.org is designed to bring together the world’s literature on mHealth effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and program efficiency. The database serves as the leading resource for cataloging and categorizing mHealth evidence. The site contains both peer-reviewed and grey literature on mHealth activities that are either proactively identified or included in the database based on MORE
mHealthNews.com - A news site for mobile healthcare, powered by MedTech Media. MORE
MobiHealthNews.com - Founded in 2008, this site is a leading provider of news, commentary, online events, and research for the global mobile health community. MORE
ICTWorks - ICTworks™, hosted by Inveneo, is a resource for sharing and expanding knowledge on appropriate information and communication technologies (ICT) and the implementation processes that can make them sustainable in rural and underserved communities in low- and middle-income countries. Subscribe to the ICTWorks newsletter on the site's homepage. MORE
Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA) Content Learning Modules - These online learning courses consist of short learning modules designed to assist organizations as they work on their own projects to localize MAMA's messages. The modules cover the principles of behavior change, localization, handling cultural beliefs, and more. MORE
Improving Health Communications in Kenya: A Feasibility Study on Engaging Frontline Healthcare Workers in Using Mobile Technology - The Internews Center for Innovation & Learning commissioned a study to explore the potential for community health workers and traditional birth attendants in Kenya to use an interactive mobile platform to improve the dissemination of health information in their communities. Internews’ Kenya office and the research team jointly determined two initial research sites to capture data from two MORE
InfoDev Mobile Innovation Program - The InfoDev Mobile Innovation Program supports growth-oriented mobile apps businesses, by (1) enabling entrepreneurship in the mobile industry through venture incubation and acceleration; (2) building mobile innovation communities of entrepreneurs, investors, partners, and mentors; and (3) researching the app economy of emerging and frontier markets. Their established network of mobile labs (mLabs MORE
cStock: A Sustainable Approach to Using mHealth to Support the Community Health Supply Chain (PPT) - Megan Noel, Monitoring & Evaluation Advisor for JSI's Supply Chains 4 Community Case Management (SC4CCM) Project gave this presentation at the November 2013 meeting of the mHealth Working Group. The presentation covers the cStock program along with the SC4CCM project in Malawi, which a focus on scale up considerations. Detailed case study with information on scale-up, sustainability, and MORE
MAMA in Country Learning Workshop: Key Take-Aways from Timor-Leste - MAMA Global hosted an in-country learning workshop in Timor-Leste in collaboration with (Health Alliance International) HAI, and their technical partner Catalpa International, shared lessons learned, best practices and led site visits, focus groups and community outreach activities. Workshop attendees also presented on their own programs, highlighting lessons learned, successes, challenges and how MORE
ZEPRS: Zambian Electronic Perinatal Medical Records System - Guides medical personnel through Zambian standard of perinatal careConcept of “flows” within the system and related data (user driven)Shared terminal usageUsage of ZEPRS data for quality assurance and supervision (export to SPSS, SAS..)Patient confidentialityAdaptability/Extensibility of ZEPRS system – open source (HIV/ART, Safe Motherhood)Using mini applications to build MORE
CORE Group's mHealth Interest Group - CORE Group convened this "mHealth community of practice” in response to interest in community-level applications that can increase quality, equity, scale, and/or sustainability of health efforts. As part of CORE Group's larger Community Health Network, this interest group is a place where ideas, experience, and expertise converge. Health program implementers and researchers work MORE
mHealth Knowledge - mHealth Knowledge connects health professionals to the people, products, and ideas that they need to do their mHealth work effectively. This site features the mHealth collaborations and products created and maintained by the USAID-funded Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project. Through mHealth Knowledge, one can learn mHealth basics; access the latest evidence about MORE
mHealth Projects: Examples from Low- and Middle-Income Countries - The Royal Tropical Institute maintains a list of mHealth project examples in resource-poor settings. The examples, which are meant to illustrate different applications of mobile technology in health care, range from projects in the planning phase to pilot studies to fully implemented programs. The table can be sorted by project title, region, country, or application area. Application areas include MORE
m-Enabled Inclusive Business Models: Applications for Health - The SHOPS project funded a 16-month study conducted by the Monitor Group as reported in Promise and Progress: Market-based Solutions to Poverty in Africa. The study identified mHealth (mobile applications for health) business models enabling enterprises to successfully engage with the poor in Africa, primarily in Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania. This primer aims to (1) highlight MORE
Mobiles for Quality Improvement Pilot in Uganda - SHOPS‘ partners Abt Associates, Jhpiego, and Marie Stopes International (MSI), collaborated in a mobile learning and performance support pilot called Mobiles for Quality Improvement (m4QI) conducted in Uganda during the period September 2010–August 2011. The goal of m4QI was to demonstrate the potential for positive behavioral change in service delivery by reinforcing face-to-face induction MORE
Closing the Access Gap: Innovation to Accelerate Universal Internet Adoption - As governments, donors, think tanks, and others try to understand how to achieve the SDGs, a significant body of work on barriers and progress toward internet access and adoption is expanding. The Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) commissioned this paper to understand potential business model and technology innovations for accelerating access and adoption MORE
Connecting the Next Four Billion: Strengthening the Global Response for Universal Internet Access - We live in a world where the Internet is increasingly integrated into our daily lives. Beyond getting online through computers or mobile devices, wrist bands track our daily exercise, and smart thermostats moderate our home climates. Even more importantly, much of our work and many of our transactions are conducted online, from communicating with our friends and coworkers, to MORE