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Baseline Evaluation of the mHealth Ecosystem and the Performance of the mHealth Alliance - mHealth Alliance Publication. The main objective of the baseline evaluation was to provide information about the current level of adoption, actual implementation, funding, and impact of mHealth in LMICs. The evaluation also measured the impact of the mHealth Alliance on promoting mHealth in the global health ecosystem. February 2013 MORE

State of Evidence: mHealth and MNCH - mHealth Alliance Publication. Trends, gaps, stakeholder needs, and opportunities for future research on the use of mobile technology to improve maternal, newborn, and child health. This report aims to identify challenges and make recommendations towards enhancing the mhealth for MNCH evidence base. February 2013 MORE

Using Mobile Technology for Healthier Aging - mHealth Alliance Publication. Globally, there is a demographic transition underway. People are living longer. Even though “old” is defined differently across the world, there will be more people ov er the age of 65 than children under five by 2015.1 By 2050, there will be an estimated 1.5 billion people age 65 or older. December 2012 MORE

Preventing Mother to Child Transmission - mHealth Alliance Publication. A report on mHealth strategies to strengthen collaboration and increase impact of PMTCT initiatives. By Frog, UNICEF, EGPAF, Jonhson & Johnson, and the mHealth Alliance. July 2012 MORE

Preparing the Next Generation of Community Health Workers - mHealth Alliance Publication. This study identifies opportunities to train CHWs more cost-effectively through technology-enabled multimedia content that leverages visuals, videos, or audio.  Additionally, it highlights the potential to create open, easily sharable digital content that could act as a crucial ingredient for new approaches to training and learning in the future. May 2012 MORE

Advancing the dialogue on Mobile Finance and Mobile Health - mHealth Alliance Publication. As mobile network operators (MNOs) continue to try to reduce churn of customers, increas- ing switching costs by launching mHealth and MFS becomes increasingly critical. It is, there- fore, little surprise that these MNOs are working with health providers and governments to integrate mobile money into health service programs. - Washington, DC: mHealth Alliance, MORE

Economics of eHealth - mHealth Alliance Publication. This paper provides an outline of key economic and financial questions to pursue in informing in-country eHealth policy and strategy investments. - Washington, DC: mHealth Alliance and Results for Development, 2010. MORE

Barriers and Gaps Affecting mHealth in Low and Middle Income Countries - mHealth Alliance Publication. A policy white paper researched and written by the Earth Institute, Columbia University, and commissioned by the mHealth Alliance. - New York, NY: Center for Global Health and Economic Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University, May 2010.   MORE

Sizing the Business Potential of mHealth in the Global South: A Practical Approach - mHealth Alliance Publication. This report provides professionals from across sectors and industries with methodologies for sizing the market opportunity for mHealth solutions in the Global South. - Washington, DC: mHealth Alliance and Vital Wave Consulting, 2009. MORE

New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts - mHealth Alliance Publication. New technologies and innovative uses of existing technologies are improving crisis preparedness, response, and prevention. Yet barriers to bringing these ideas to scale remain, and humanitarian aid groups and others must weigh the potential risks and rewards of using new communications technology tools. - Washington, DC: UN Foundation-Vodafone Foundation MORE

Technology Salon - The Technology Salon™ is an intimate, informal, and in-person discussion between information and communication technology experts and international development professionals, with a focus on both (1) technology’s impact on donor-sponsored technical assistance delivery, and (2) private enterprise-driven economic development, facilitated by technology. Monthly meetings now occur in Washington, D.C., MORE

Human-Centered Design for Social Innovation - 2013, Acumen and IDEO.org, Human-Centered Design for Social Innovation is a five week course that will introduce you to the concepts of human-centered design and help you use the design process to create innovative, effective, and sustainable solutions for social change. No prior design experience necessary. See also: IDEO’s Human-Centered Design Toolkit MORE

NetHope Cloud Services Portal - Explore effective cloud and ICT solutions with the social sector, technology providers, and donors. Includes databases for Case Studies and Programs, covering the topics of Connectivity, Emergency Response, Field Capacity Building, GBi Connectivity, Innovation for Development, Payment Innovations, and Shared Services. MORE

CommCare - CommCare applications, free for anyone to use or adapt. Includes case management and monitoring tools as well as counseling guides for MNCH and nutrition.CommCare is used in over 40 countries and is lauded as one of the most widely adopted, technically advanced, and evidence-based mobile platform for low-resource settings. MORE

HealthPhone - Provides health videos in multiple languages for free download to families in rural, low-income communities. Users can build a personal reference library on low-cost mobile phones. Available in real time. No signal or connection is required. MORE

Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action - Vetted, adaptable SMS and audio stage-based health messages that cover pregnancy and childcare from birth to age three, plus additional content on breastfeeding/infant feeding, postpartum family planning, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), and messages written for other household decision makers. Spanish content is available on pregnancy and childcare up to age one. MORE

eMOCHA (electronic Mobile Open-source Comprehensive Health Application) - A free open-source application, developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education. eMOCHA is designed to assist health programs in developing countries improve provider communication and education, as well as patient care, by coordinating wireless devices with local server-based clinical training and patient care support services. MORE

RapidSMS - RapidSMS is a free and open-source framework for rapidly building mobile services for scale. RapidSMS is built with Python and Django and is designed for building robust, highly customized mobile services with web-based dashboards. RapidSMS provides a flexible platform and modular components for large-scale data collection, managing complex workflows, and automating data analysis. MORE

mCARE - A pregnancy and neonatal health information system that connects rural health workers and facilities with pregnant women and their newborns in Bangladesh, developed through a partnership including the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. MORE

USAID's Center for Innovation and Impact Newsletter - USAID's Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact (CII) applies business-minded approaches to the development, introduction and scale-up of health interventions to accelerate impact against the world's most important health challenges. MORE

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) ICT Playbook - The Sustainable Development Goals ICT Playbook recommends where investments in information and communications technology (ICT) should be made in order to support achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  MORE

Getting Healthier Around the World: Information and Communication Technologies for Child Health and Development - mHealth Alliance Publication. To celebrate Universal Children’s Day 2013, this report was commissioned by Sesame Workshop and the mHealth Alliance to achieve two objectives: (1) to explore current and future opportunities in the use of mobile phones and other relevant information and communications technologies (ICTs) for improving the health and development of young children as investments for a MORE

Leveraging Mobile Technologies to Promote Maternal & Newborn Health - mHealth Alliance Publication. The Current Landscape and opportunities for  advancement in low-resource settings.  The objective of this report is twofold: (1) to describe the current state of mhealth intervention design, implementation, and evaluation that can be leveraged to improve maternal and newborn health globally and  (2) to identify ways to strategically advance mhealth in MORE

Framework for Engagement: Leverging Mobile Technologies for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health - mHealth Alliance Publication. The global community has identified improving maternal, newborn and child health (“mnCh”) as a strategic development priority, embedding the goal within millennium Development goals 4 (reducing child mortality) and 5 (improving mothers’ health). while there has been global progress toward achieving these goals by the target date of 2015, there are still significant MORE

mHealth Education - mHealth Alliance Publication. Harnessing the Mobile Revolution to Bridge the Health Education & Training Gap in Developing Countries.  The iheed Institute and Dalberg Global Development Advisors have prepared this report to set the stage for mHealthEd 2011 at GSMA mHealth Alliance Mobile Health Summit, which is the first dedicated conference on the emerging phenomenon of mobile MORE