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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
October 21, 2009 – 8:42 pm
The November issue of digital mag Wired dropped through our mailbox this morning.. its cover story is about immunization and how parents who are deciding (in response to misinformation spread by anti-vaccination groups) to not have their kids vaccinated, are endangering public health. Paul Offit, a pediatrician and the co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine is [...]
September 11, 2009 – 1:37 pm
We met with Tim Sebastian and the Red Cross yesterday to discuss global efforts to improve emergency preparedness and response with the help of new technology/social media tools and services. We presented concepts from our WHO-Media Lab project and were very happy to learn of the growing momentum for more effective collaboration and response, focusing [...]
A few weeks back, Nielsen released their Three Screen Report, which measures the viewing habits of Americans in terms of TV, the Internet, and mobile phones. The research showed that while TV viewing is still dominant, online video usage is up by 53% from last year, and the number of people watching video via mobiles [...]
This ‘ToGoManuals’ concept (check out this link for full description PDF, video soon to follow) is a great example of how organizations can use social media internally to improve and facilitate work, as well as making use of the collaborative aspect of social media.. the ToGo concept has been developed by students at the University [...]
