Tag Archives: health

Near Field Communications

June 7, 2011 – 11:31 am

We are currently really interested in the variety of mobile use options presented by near filed communication (NFC), which allows devices to seamlessly and intuitively communicate with one another, enabling an easy, convenient user experience.
NFC is basically a set of short-range wireless technologies, typically requiring a distance of 10 cm or less, the [...]

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Next Phase of WHO Safe Hospitals Campaign

March 16, 2011 – 11:50 am

M4ID has been supporting WHO South-East Asia in a regional campaign to raise public awareness and push governments to take concrete actions in making hospitals safe from disasters. In brief this means building them to withstand natural disasters, having emergency plans in place, training staff to respond and continue to provide services post-disaster.  We built [...]

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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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Health Awareness through YouTube

February 8, 2010 – 9:44 am

On 4 February, YouTube launched a health awareness round on their Video volunteers Chanel to mark World Cancer Day.  Through the initiative, anyone can make/upload up to three minute long videos promoting a chosen health organization’s work.The three most popular videos will be featured on the YouTube Homepage at the end of the month, offering [...]

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Can't Wait to try Augmented Reality

May 7, 2009 – 11:41 am

We’re really excited about the possibilities of augmented reality (AR) in engaging audiences in development and health themes.. we’re currently developing a few ideas for one of our campaigns that is entering it’s ‘phase 2′ (more on this later).   Wikipedia explains AR as the combination of real-world and computer-generated data (virtual reality), where computer graphics [...]

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WHO launches online drive for hospitals safe from disasters

April 7, 2009 – 9:17 am

Today, on World Health Day, WHO has launched a drive to make hospitals in South-East Asia safe from disasters. The email and web-based campaign, WHO’s first, aims to gather support from 1 million people. With the public’s help, WHO will call on leaders to invest in this area to prevent future, needless loss of [...]

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CDC leading the way

March 17, 2009 – 12:52 pm

We follow with interest and excitement the US Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) use of social media. Some of the new approaches to health promotion include recently launched eCards through which people can send greetings, while sharing health related messages.. they’ve also opened a virtual flu clinic on Whyville.net, a site that explains a wide [...]

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What are you doing now?

March 10, 2009 – 11:34 am

Twitter, the micro-blogging site, asks the simple question: “What are you doing now?” This can be answered in real time (in less than 140 characters) using SMS, instant message or via a webpage, so users can keep in touch whenever, wherever. The concept is very simple and at first glance, Twitter can seem almost trivial. [...]

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New mobile health care initiative launched

March 3, 2009 – 9:25 am

The UN, Vodafone, and the Rockefeller Foundation have formed a new “mobile health” alliance, with the aim of using mobile technology to provide better healthcare worldwide. The three made their announcement at the GSM World Mobile Conference in February 2009, stating they will facilitate global innovation, unite existing projects to improve healthcare using mobile technology and [...]

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