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Using broadband web apps to harness mobile phones in the developing world

Using broadband web apps to harness mobile phones in the developing world. Joel Selanikio, MD DataDyne.org. Broadband. Mobile Penetration in Africa 2002-2012. Lots of mobile and a little broadband. Source: Blycroft Ltd. How can we harness this world of “lots of mobile, a little broadband?.

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Using broadband web apps to harness mobile phones in the developing world

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  1. Using broadband web apps to harness mobile phones in the developing world • Joel Selanikio, MD • DataDyne.org

  2. Broadband Mobile Penetration in Africa 2002-2012 Lots of mobile and a little broadband Source: Blycroft Ltd

  3. How can we harness this world of “lots of mobile, a little broadband?

  4. How can we harness this world of “lots of mobile, a little broadband?

  5. Name Age # children DataDyne’s EpiSurveyor So we built a web app for public health Online Form Creator Report

  6. Kenya MOH officers in Nairobi with broadband web access design forms online Kenya MOH workers throughout the country with just a simple phone collect data and upload it over the network in real time

  7. Rather than wait 6-12 months for data entry to occur before analysis they have real-time data collection, immediate analysis, and same-day action Connecting the many with mobile & the few with broadband

  8. Since EpiSurveyor.org was launched in June Almost 1000 users from 500 organizations in 100 countries have filled out 12,000 forms Wall Street Journal Tech Innovation Award Vaccines provided, supplies managed, outbreaks tracked, lives saved

  9. The Lessons We can apply the lessons of Gmail and Facebook to use a little broadband to coordinate a lot of simple mobile We can build those applications once and scale them worldwide

  10. joel@datadyne.org www.datadyne.org

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