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K4Health's Photoshare - Photoshare is a service of the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) project, based at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (JHU∙CCP), helping international nonprofit organizations communicate health and development issues through photography.  Photoshare is a leading source for public health and development communication, focused on demonstrating MORE

K4Health mHealth Planning Guide - The mHealth Planning Guide helps individuals and organizations appropriately plan for mHealth deployments. This Guide provides a thorough orientation to the mHealth planning process for anyone looking to learn more about integrating mobile technology into health programs in low- and middle-income countries, outlines key considerations and resources for planning an mHealth intervention, from MORE

mPowering Frontline Health Workers | BLOG - Frontline health workers are the first and often the only link to health care for millions of families in low and middle income countries. Mobile technology, nearly ubiquitous in these countries, offers a revolutionary opportunity to strengthen the capacity of frontline health workers and expand the coverage of critical maternal and child health interventions such as antenatal services, prevention MORE

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

Making Content Meaningful: A Guide to Adapting Existing Global Health Content for Different Audiences - The abundance of openly accessible health content—from eLearning courses and multimedia resources to guidance documents and research papers—presents a remarkable opportunity for teaching, learning, and sharing. Open health content, however, is not sufficient by itself. It is important to provide it in the appropriate context and the language of the people who will use it. The Knowledge for Health MORE

HealthE Africa - HealthE Africa is a peer assistance network that aims to strengthen existing digital health partnerships and foster new collaborations in Africa. The community connects programme needs with African technology experts and service providers, and so strengthens local and regional digital health.HealthE Africa aims to create a more effective and efficient market for digital health services so that the MORE

Integrating Mobiles into Development Projects - The primary audience of this handbook is USAID staff, although much of the content is relevant to anyone interested in integrating mobiles into development projects more effectively. Most of the examples highlighted are from Southeast Asia, although the relevance of the content is global. Since the mobiles for development space is evolving rapidly, the handbook is intended to equip readers with a MORE

Planning an Information Systems Project: A Toolkit for Public Health Managers - This toolkit can help public health managers plan for the implementation of information and communications technology in health information systems. It draws on lessons learned by project Optimize, a five-year collaboration between the World Health Organization and PATH, to help optimize the vaccine supply chain. While the focus is on information and communications technology, many of MORE

Principles for Digital Development - The Greentree Consensus represents a concerted effort by donors to capture the most important lessons learned by the development community in the implementation of information and communications technology for development (ICT4D) projects. These principles seek to serve as a set of living guidelines that are meant to inform, but not dictate, the design of technology-enabled development programs MORE

U Report -  U-Report is a free SMS social monitoring tool for community participation, designed to address issues that people care about. SMS polls and alerts are sent out to U-Reporters and real-time response information is collected. Results and ideas are shared back with the community. Issues polled include among others health, education, water, sanitation and hygiene, youth unemployment, HIV/AIDS, MORE

African Strategies for Health (ASH) Project mHealth Compendiums (Editions 1-6 & Infographic) - The mHealth Compendiums document a range of mHealth applications being implemented primarily in Africa. This series was initially published in November 2012. The series contains case studies organized within five programmatic areas: Behavior Change Communication, Data Collection, Finance, Logistics and Service Delivery which document mHealth innovations, many of which seek to contribute MORE

Global Digital Health Network Listserv (formerly the mHealth Working Group) - Vision: The Global Digital Health Network envisions a world where technical innovation supports improved health and contributes to better quality, accessibility and sustainability of health services and health outcomes, particularly for underserved populations in low resource environments. Mission: The Global Digital Health Network, formerly the mHealth Working Group created in 2009 MORE

TechChange Course: Mapping for Social Good - In this four-week online course, users will learn from leading experts how to leverage open data in OpenStreetMap, make beautiful maps in MapBox, map a crisis in Ushahidi, and manage projects with Palantir and Tomnod. Course DescriptionHow can you better visualize the geographic impact of your organization, projects, and global development programs? The use of digital mapping tools MORE