Tag Archives: Asia

Historic support for WHO campaign for safe hospitals!

May 24, 2011 – 2:00 pm

Today the World Health Assembly passed a resolution on strengthening national health emergency, disaster management capacities and the resilience of health systems.   A big congratulation to all partners who have been working on this, particularly WHO’s South-East Asia emergency response team!
The resolution has been one of the objectives of the safe hospitals campaign we designed [...]

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Jet Li urges 4.1 million fans to support WHO campaign

December 7, 2010 – 9:02 pm

Jet Li has joined our WHO campaign for safe hospitals is disasters and has urged his 4.1 million Facebook followers to do the same.  As an tsunami survivor and an ardent supporter of disaster preparedness, he is a very fitting spokesperson for this Asian-focused campaign. We are really grateful for his endorsement and look forward [...]

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WHO South-East Asia’s first social media initiative

November 1, 2010 – 11:29 am

Ten days ago, WHO South East Asia launched their first social media outreach effort (designed by us!), aiming to engage people in the issue of hospitals safe in disasters. This new approach  is part of their ongoing work to make South-East Asia more disaster prepared. The initiative is spearheaded by a Facebook reaction test [...]

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Making Our Hospitals Safe from Disasters

September 10, 2010 – 2:18 pm

On Monday we go live with our latest project, a social media campaign for WHO’s drive for safe hospitals in disasters.  It’s been a challenging issue to communicate and we’re real proud of the final concept.. we’re spearheading the campaign with a Facebook application and have a strong blogoshpere and banner approach to drive additional [...]

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Namaste India!

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 [...]

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Social Media Penetration Up in Asia-Pacific

April 7, 2010 – 8:08 pm

AdNews is reporting that that a study done by ComScore has found social media penetration at 90% in the Asia-Pacific region (excluding China).  Facebook was ranked as the top social network, though it was topped by Orkut in India, Mixi.jp in Japan, CyWorld in South Korea and Wretch.cc in Taiwan.
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Asian Social Media Landscape

November 11, 2009 – 5:37 pm

We’re currently developing the social media phase of WHO’s South-East Asia advocacy campaign for safe hospitals in emergencies, the effort is being spearheaded by Jet Li .. it’s exciting and challenging at the same time as the aim is to reach 1 million social web users across Asia.
The excellent wiki on digital media in Asia [...]

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Wiki on Social Media Landscape in Asia

May 15, 2009 – 9:49 am

The Singapore Management University has created an excellent wiki about the Asian social media landscape, it covers: technology penetration, social media use, mobile markets, case studies, leading bloggers, important web sites, and governmental policy, all in a single location. By the end of 2009, they aim to provide a full digital media map of Asia.
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