Tag Archives: technology

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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Fear of Change?

September 25, 2009 – 10:52 am

Marketing ‘guru’ Seth Godin has ignited an online firestorm with his recent blog post condemning nonprofits for their aversion to change and their resistance to embracing social media.  Seth laments, “Where are the big charities, the urgent charities, the famous charities that face such timely needs and are in a hurry to make change? Very [...]

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Mobile Innovation: XoutTB

June 11, 2009 – 11:46 am

Researchers at MIT have developed a mobile phone based incentive scheme for TB patients to keep taking their pills .. the system, called XoutTB is based around stamp-sized patches, much like litmus paper (see photo below), that change colour when exposed to the urine of people with traces of medicine in their systems. This change [...]

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New Facebook Social Widget

March 4, 2009 – 2:37 pm

Facebook has launched a Comments Box social messaging widget, which helps further integrate Facebook Connect into sites and blogs. Facebook Connect allows users to sign on to other sites and blogs using their Facebook account information. With the new Comments Box, Facebook users can comment on site content, post those comments to their profiles, and [...]

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May those who help the most win

March 3, 2009 – 9:46 am

On March 17th we’ll all be able to vote on Project 10^100, Google’s ideas competition. Last September, Google called for people to submit ideas that could help as many people as possible and committed $10 million to bringing the best ideas to life. Project 10^100 was created to mark the 10th birthday of Google and [...]

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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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