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New project links Facebook+SMS in support of maternal health in crises settings

April 20, 2011 – 7:46 pm

A new M4ID-designed Facebook and SMS communications initiative, Mama: Together for Safe Births in Crises, was launched today in New York by the Women’s Refugee Commission. The project addresses an important information gap for maternal health workers in emergencies, as identified by WRC research.
Through Mama, health workers are now able to identify themselves as maternal [...]

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Social Media Prototypes Presented at CMI 10th Anniversary

April 20, 2011 – 11:52 am

The anniversary seminar of the non-profit organisation Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) chaired by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ahtisaari took place yesterday at the Finnish National Theatre. M4ID and MA course students from Aalto University joined NGOs, business leaders, politicians and Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in discussing peace mediation and [...]

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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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New Course on Crisis Management and Interactive Dialogue Environments

February 10, 2011 – 1:47 pm

Tomorrow we start a new MA course over at Aalto University exploring new media concepts for conflict resolution. The course, called ‘Crisis Management and Interactive Dialogue Environments’, is a continuation of the successful collaboration between WHO, M4ID and Aalto, which resulted in 3 new social media prototypes for WHO’s Health Action in Crises.   Read more [...]

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Design of new Global Campaign

January 4, 2011 – 1:15 pm

M4ID is thrilled to, together with our partner Family, be designing a new global maternal health focused campaign for the Women’s Refugee Commission.  The aim of the campaign is to engage and support a community of experts working on maternal health issues in humanitarian settings.  Building on extensive research, we’re developing a REEAN (reach, entice, [...]

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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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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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M4ID at Mobile Africa Event

August 4, 2010 – 5:05 pm

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 [...]

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The Missing Piece

August 2, 2010 – 2:56 pm

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 [...]

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