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TechChange Course: Technology for Monitoring and Evaluation - How do you use technology to get insight from information? Whether you work for a small nonprofit, large government agency, or private sector firm, the demand to capture and visualize quantifiable results has never been greater. This four week online certificate course will focus on building skills and strategies to better collect, manage, analyze and visualize data using a variety of ICT tools MORE

TechChange Course: Technology for Data Collection and Survey Design -  Course DescriptionHow has technology changed the way data are collected and the way surveys are deployed? Organizations, agencies and companies are just beginning,  digital data collection skills are in high demand.Data collection is the building block of M&E work. The data collected determines the value of analysis and the impact that can be measured. Digital survey tools have MORE

TechChange Course: Technology for Knowledge Management - This course will provide an overview of the knowledge cycle by focusing on skills and strategies to better generate, capture, share, and apply knowledge to development programs.Course DescriptionOur digitally connected lives have made information increasingly available to all. How do you navigate this world of overabundant information, while making sure that the right knowledge is being MORE

TechChange Course: Technology for Disaster Response - Course DescriptionThis four-week online professional development certificate course explores how new information-, communication- and mapping technologies can be practically used to respond to disasters, augment situational awareness, improve relief coordination and much more.The digital revolution is changing disaster response. From the earthquake in Haiti to Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, MORE

TechChange Course: Basics of Digital Safety - Course DescriptionIn our digitally connected world, new risks to our data and privacy have emerged. Governments are using technology to attack infrastructure and surveil its own citizens. How do you ensure that your data and beneficiary data are safe?Understanding information communication technology infrastructure is just as important as understanding technology tools and strategies for digital MORE

TechChange Course: Technology for Data Visualization and Analysis - Are you analyzing your data efficiently and displaying them effectively? Nearly all of us are responsible for producing reports for our colleagues, supervisors, and clients. Good data visualization is essential to analyzing your data quickly and with the greatest value. Course DescriptionThe importance of data visualization has become apparent in the current era of ‘big data’ that we live in. MORE

CycleTel™: Bringing a market-based mindset to mHealth - CycleTel™ is an innovative mHealth product: a fertility awareness-based family planning method delivered to users via SMS.  The Global mHealth Initiative spoke with Alexis Ettinger and Nicki Ashcroft from the Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) to learn more about this USAID-funded program. The article covers the following topics: -What is CycleTel? -Why MORE

Barriers and Gaps Affecting mHealth in Low and Middle Income Countries - The mHealth Alliance commissioned an in‐depth exploration of the policy barriers and research gaps facing mHealth. This White Paper, written by a team of researchers at the Center for Global Health and Economic Development at The Earth Institute, Columbia University, examines and synthesizes the existing mHealth literature to assess the current state of mHealth knowledge and identify barriers and MORE

mHealth Assessment and Planning for Scale (MAPS) Toolkit - Developed by WHO's Department of Reproductive Health and Research in partnership with the United Nations Foundation and the Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative, the mHealth Assessment and Planning for Scale (MAPS) Toolkit is a self-assessment tool designed to assist project teams in scaling up their mHealth innovations. The MAPS Toolkit aims to assist mHealth project teams to MORE

MAMA Research Agenda - By sharing our research agenda and highlighting our current priorities and approaches to gathering evidence on the impact of our MAMA country, we hope to contribute to the global evidence base of mHealth messaging for improved MNCH.MAMA’s latest research studies are raising the bar – going beyond subscribers’ self-reported claims of change to using clinical data to verify changes in uptake of MORE

Delivering mHealth Education at Scale in India: Lessons Learned - In this webinar, Sara Chamberlain, Head at ICT of BBC Media Action, India discusses scaling mobile health education services for hundreds of thousands of frontline health workers across the Indian states of Bihar, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh, in partnership with six of the largest mobile operators in India: Airtel, BSNL, Idea, Reliance, TATA and Vodafone. BBC Media Action's award-winning mobile MORE

Ushahidi (RollCall, BRCK, SMSSync, Crisis Net) - Ushahidi, which translates to “testimony” in Swahili, was developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election violence in 2008. Since then, thousands have used our crowdsourcing tools to raise their voice. We’re a technology leader in Africa, headquartered in Nairobi, with a global team.Products:RollCall:RollCall is a team check-in app that helps reach your people on any device, MORE

Mobile Money for Health Case Study Compendium - Globally, 2.5 billion people are “unbanked,” lacking access to formal financial services. As a result, roughly one third of the world’s population is forced to rely on cash transactions or informal financial systems, which can often be unsafe, inconvenient, and expensive. Among the unbanked, however, a billion have access to a mobile phone, and mobile-based financial services are MORE

Mobile Money for Health white paper - Mobile money enables funds to be deposited, transferred, and withdrawn electronically through mobile phone accounts. Fueled by the success of Kenya’s M-Pesa mobile payment platform, mobile money is a rapidly growing alternative to cash in developing countries. Whereas mobile money services have been launched in more than 70 countries with the majority of current deployments in sub-Saharan MORE