Royal African Society presentation 1st september 2011

Mobile Phones for Cows?Royal African Society1st September 2011Nick Short Royal Veterinary College

Animal Diseases
Major impact on the poorest
Increasing concern about emerging diseases
Risk that diseases will infect humans
Need to work at frontline for early detection
Good field based surveillance is crucial
Rapid and effective response is needed

Mobile Technology
Population of Kenya is about 40 million people
Mobile subscribers increased from 11 million in 2007 to 25million in June 2011.
Kenya has 10 million internet users, 98% served through mobile operators as ISP.
But less than five percent of people living in rural areas use the Internet

Mobile Geo-Mapping
Geo-spatial tools allow accurate plotting
Central data aggregation in the “Cloud”
Off line facility and SD card storage
Two way communication to build CoP
Integration of different data types

EpiCollect

Mobile Data Surveillance

www.rvc.ac.uk/vetaidkenya

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