August 26, 2010 – 1:57 pm
We’re very excited to be part-taking in a number of events in Delhi over the next week. We’re firstly going to be talking to the MacArthur Foundation team about new technology approaches to maternal and reproductive health. We’ll then present our vision of digital advocacy at the Global Conference on Maternal Health, as well as [...]
August 16, 2010 – 3:17 pm
A recent CNN article highlights interesting use of mobile technology in Rwanda, where the government has issued nearly 500 mobile phones to community health care workers in the rural Musanze district. Through a text message, health care workers can register expectant mothers with a local clinic, where doctors track their progress. Subsequent queries, complications or [...]
August 9, 2010 – 10:35 pm
The 15th Africa Union (AU) Summit, held in Kampala, Uganda, drew to a close on July 27 with its biggest commitment yet to maternal health. Talks had to be extended after as many as 30 heads of state shared the challenges of providing adequate child and maternal health service. At the closing, leaders agreed to [...]
M4ID is pleased to have been invited to speak at Mobile Africa – Europe’s largest and most innovative happening on mobile opportunities in Africa. The event includes speakers ranging from Esko Aho, Executive Vice President, Corporate Relations and Responsibility, Nokia and Hossein Moiin, Chief Technology Officer, Nokia Siemens Networks to Marlon Parker, founder of JamiiX [...]
August 3, 2010 – 11:31 am
Last night we witnessed the launch of JamiiX, a product from South-African Reconstructed Living Lab, a community organization working in Bridge Town, also know as Ugly Town. The tool came to life organically: ex gang members and drug users were supported and trained in social media, they then realized the enormous potential of [...]
The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, made up of 300 organizations, has last week relaunched the G8 leader lobbying campaign ‘The Missing Piece’ designed by M4ID in 2008. The 2010 call asks for decision-makers to step up and provide the US$ 19 billion needed to save the lives of 12 million [...]
Location based service Foursquare is becoming increasingly popular, to the point of being tipped the Twitter of 2010. The mobile phone based service allows people to virtually check-in to a location and earn points, status and coupons. Because the check-in process happens when someone is physically at for example a store, the person can see [...]
Today we received the good news that our presentation abstract has been chosen from the 500 submitted for the Global Maternal Health Conference, organized in New Delhi from 30 August – 1 September. The conference focuses on new, underused and neglected programmatic approaches as well as discussing how to strengthen global advocacy. We’ll bring our [...]
We’ve been busy gearing up for next weeks Women Deliver conference in DC, looking forward to interesting plenaries and presentations, as well as seeing new maternal health advocacy material such as the film Stories of Mothers Saved, by Christy Turlington.
Reports to following from the conference Mon-Wed!
Google announced through it’s blog that YouTube has launched a South Africa version. YouTube is teaming up with South African broadcasters to fill the new version with locally produced content, as well as educational content from universities, such as the Rhodes Journalism School. While YouTube is of course available to anyone on the Internet , [...]
