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Digital Health for Systems: Strengthening Family Planning Systems Through Time and Resource Efficiencies - This new High Impact Practice (HIP) brief summarizes the experience and evidence for the most commonly used digital health technologies aimed at supporting health systems and providers. Key messages from the brief include: Family planning indicators should be incorporated into new and existing digital health and logistics management information systems. More research is needed about when MORE

Asia Health Information Network Cisco Webex Event Center - Meetings are effective ways for sharing knowledge and building stronger relationships. To foster more in-country and cross-country knowledge exchange, every AeHIN member can now request the use of the network's official online meeting platform, the Cisco Webex Event Center 500.Are there any discussion session/activity which you or your institutions conduct regularly? This could go as regular as MORE

Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Harnessing the Public Health Skill Set in a New Era of Health Reforms and Investment - By: Elham Hatef, MD, MPH; Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD; Alain B. Labrique, PhDThe Context for Innovation and EntrepreneurshipThe implementation of the Affordable Care Act and major reforms of the health system have resulted in rapid proliferation of innovation-driven start-up companies in the health sector.1 These start-ups typically focus on the application of new MORE

Norweigan Institute of Public Health eRegistries - An eRegistry is an organized system for collecting, managing, analyzing, and most importantly, using reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health data to improve women and children’s health.We believe that better use of health information results in better decisions and, ultimately, in better health. eRegistries are strategically designed to facilitate data use – through accurate and MORE

TechChange Course: Mobile Data Solutions - This two hour interactive on-demand online course developed by the Global Development Lab at USAID, FHI360, and TechChange explores how mobile technologies can be used to more effectively collect and disseminate data in order to better meet development goals. Access this full course for free from anywhere with an internet connection and anytime no matter your time zone.Course DescriptionMobile MORE

e-Registries Initiative - An eRegistry is an organized system for collecting, managing, analyzing, and most importantly, using reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health data to improve women and children’s health. eRegistries are strategically designed to facilitate data use – through accurate and easily available clinical decision support for health care providers, personalized messages to pregnant woman and MORE

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 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: RapidPro Essentials - TechChange teamed up with UNICEF's innovation team to build this interactive online course on how to get started with RapidPro. RapidPro is a new powerful open source software that allows you to easily build and scale mobile-based applications and services from anywhere in the world. Access this full course for free from anywhere with an internet connection and anytime no matter your time zone MORE

TechChange Course: Mobiles for International Development - Course DescriptionThe mobile phone is rapidly bringing communication to the most remote areas of the world. NGOs, governments and companies alike are beginning to realize the potential of this ubiquitous tool to address a variety of global challenges. This four-week online professional development certificate course, which has been featured in the New York Times and Fast Company, will explore MORE

FROM PRINCIPLE TO PRACTICE: Implementing the Principles for Digital Development - The Principles for Digital Development are “living” guidelines that can help development practitioners integrate established best practices into technology-enabled programs. They are written by and for international development donors, multilateral organizations, and implementing partners, and they are freely available for use by all. The Principles are intended to serve as guidance rather than MORE

TechChange Course: OpenDRI An Introduction to Open Data for Environmental Resilience - This 30 minute course covers the principles of the Open Data for Resilience Initiative.In 2011, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) launched the Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI) to apply the concepts of the global open data movement to the challenges of reducing vulnerability to natural hazards and the impacts of climate change. OpenDRI supports World Bank MORE

Asia eHealth Information Network National eHealth Capacity Roadmap - In support of AeHIN's Strategic Action Points, we are pleased to share an updated roadmap of action for eHealth success. This roadmap starts with the WHO-ITU National eHealth Strategy Toolkit and shows a systematic progression from strategy to implementation hinged on capacity-building. Several Asian countries had been guided towards their national eHealth strategy in 2013 through the WHO-ITU 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

TechChange Course: Introduction to Mobile Money - This on-demand online course, developed and delivered by the Mobile Solutions team at USAID, QED, and TechChange, includes over 2 hours of dynamic content informed by the best thinking in the field. Access this full course for free from anywhere with an internet connection and anytime no matter your time zone.Course DescriptionMobile money has the power to do for entrepreneurship what commercial 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 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