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Mtenthela Health Centre
Friday, January 2, 2009
RapidSMS Child Malnutrition Surveillance and Famine Responce
The project will enable the Government of Malawi, UNICEF Malawi, and their partners to geographically map and track child malnutrition trends accurately and in real time. This tool will provide a critical means of intervention into rapidly unfolding food and nutrition crises. If successful, the pilot will serve as a model to scale up the use of mobile devices in other nutrition and food security surveillance systems worldwide.
UNICEF's Innovations Team is advising the pilot and also deploying RapidSMS for famine response in Malawi, modeled after the system developed in Ethiopia last fall. Read more:
http://mobileactive.org/preventing-famine-mobile
http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/1303
The project has recently been awarded a grant as winner of the USAID Development 2.0 Innovation Challenge:
http://mobileactive.org/usaids-development-2-0-challenge-mobile-innovation-and-winner