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Social Media Strategies

January 15, 2012 – 1:53 pm

We’re currently working on WHO Europe Region’s social media strategy and the design of pilot campaigns for this years World Health Day on ‘healthy ageing’ as well as WHO’s immunization programme.   We’ve kicked off with staff interviews to gain insight and jointly develop objectives .. we’ll present findings to the Executive Committee on 24 [...]

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Campaign highlighted

January 10, 2012 – 12:50 pm

A big thanks to Frogloop for highlighting our recent campaign, nice!

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Social Media Workshop in New Delhi

December 16, 2011 – 1:48 pm

We hosted a very lively and well-received social media and mobile technology workshop in New Delhi this week, with 55 participants from women’s and youth SRRH/maternal health NGOs from across India.  It was a great group and we learnt a lot from the exchange of ideas and experiences.  The workshop was part of our three-year [...]

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Situation Analysis for India

October 31, 2011 – 4:28 pm

We’re this week focusing on developing a social media and mobile situation analysis for India, as a foundation for our India NGO consultations in December.  This is one of the first activities we are carrying out as part of the three-year MacArthur Foundation grant we were awarded to support women’s health organizations in leveraging new [...]

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M4ID Awarded MacArthur Foundation Grant!

September 1, 2011 – 1:38 pm

We are thrilled to announce that MacArthur Foundation has awarded M4ID a three year grant to support organizations working on reproductive and maternal health in leveraging social media and new communications technology in their programmes.  The project focus is on India, Nigeria and Mexico.
There are immense opportunities in this field and we really look forward [...]

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Social Good Summit in NY

August 16, 2011 – 10:50 am

M4ID will also be attending the Social Good Summit held in New York 19-22 September, looking forward to seeing many of our partners and colleagues there.

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Mama Mentor

August 5, 2011 – 11:24 am

The Mama: Together for Safe Births community of practice was launched a few months back by Women’s Refugee Commission (see below post), and we’ve continued to provide support to WRC and the health practitioners who have joined the Facebook community.  One of the latest tools is a refined Mama Mentors application, through which doctors and [...]

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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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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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Formula 1 Driver Heikki Kovalainen reacts for safe hospitals

May 17, 2011 – 12:55 pm

One of the fastest men in the world, Lotus team Formula 1 driver Heikki Kovalainen, has become the first champion to join WHO’s campaign (designed by us!) and challenge the public to beat his reaction time. ”I feel that this is a meaningful and effective way to help ensure hospitals and health facilities continue to [...]

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