Tag Archives: social media

Tweeting Across Africa

New research from Portland shows that South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Morocco are leading Tweeting in Africa.  The researched analysed +11.5 million geo-located Tweets originating on the continent during the last three months of 2011, findings include that political leaders are still largely absent from the debates playing out on Twitter. It concludes that as [...]

Social Media Strategies

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 [...]

Situation Analysis for India

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 [...]

M4ID Awarded MacArthur Foundation Grant!

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 [...]

Social Good Summit in NY

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.

The Joy of Giving

We love, love this video of Narayanan Krishanan -  companion to the forgotten. Check it and share his message of giving:

Historic support for WHO campaign for safe hospitals!

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 [...]

Formula 1 Driver Heikki Kovalainen reacts for safe hospitals

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 [...]

Social Media Prototypes Presented at CMI 10th Anniversary

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 [...]

Next Phase of WHO Safe Hospitals Campaign

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 [...]