2. InSTEDD’s mission is to improve
global health, safety and sustainable
development through:
Building Capacity
within communities to foster a local culture
of innovation
Creating Collaboration Technologies
for social good
Collaborating with End Users
through a bottom up design and
development process
Ensuring Usefulness and Impact
through research and evaluation
3. Who: Created from Larry Brilliant’s
TED Prize and funded by Google.org,
Rockefeller Foundation and others
What: A network of international
public health experts, scientists, and
software engineers focused on
improving health, safety and sustainable
development
When: Founded in 2006
Where: Based in Silicon Valley, CA,
USA but working in Asia, Africa, the
Americas and Europe
4. Why: Long term positive
impact requires communities
to continually develop their
own solutions
How: We design and use
open source technology tools
to help partners enhance
collaboration, share
knowledge and improve
information flow so partners
can better deliver critical
services in their communities.
5. Social Responsibility:
We believe we have a responsibility to
use all our skills, knowledge and
experience to make a positive impact
on global health and safety.
Collaboration:
We shape our programs and
technologies to support and enhance
local and global collaboration aimed at
achieving meaningful social impact.
Agility:
We work in incremental and adaptive
steps, side by side with our stakeholders
and beneficiaries, to jointly design
programs and technologies that have
measurable impact.
6. OUR APPROACH:
Understand the Context
Develop Appropriate Tech
Build Local Capacity
Serve the Real Need
8. Southeast Asia
InSTEDD iLabs act as enabling environments for technology
transfer and collaboration between software developers,
governments, NGOs, universities, private sector companies,
local communities and experts from a variety of disciplines.
9. Welcome to the iLab Southeast Asia:
Early Detection Response from Grassroots Level
11. Disease Reporting:
The diseases can spread faster than the report information
Disease Reporting:
The diseases can spread faster than the report information
12. Early Detection Response:
is crucial in outbreak situations of diseases like H5N1, H1N1, Cholera
23. GeoChat is a collaboration tool that
allows anyone to chat, report, and
get alerts on their cell phone.
24. GeoChat:
KEY FEATURES BENEFITS
! Realtime Chats
! Reports of structured and
unstructured data
! Alerts on the go
! Works on any phone with low signal
! See your team on a map
! Message can be sent/received over
email, SMS, twitter, GTalk and more
! Works even without internet
! Cheap, fast and easy!
25. GeoChat:
WHO IS USING IT?
Ministry of Health, Cambodia: The Cambodian Ministry of
Health uses GeoChat to simplify report diseases, send staff alerts and
rapidly escalate response to potential outbreaks.
Community Health Workers, Mukdahan, Thailand:
Mukdahan uses GeoChat in the whole province to connect over 600
community health workers with each other and their managers to
accelerate outbreak response and spread useful information to villages.
Department of Mental Health and Hygiene, New York: The
Department of Mental Health and Hygiene in New York built their own
application on GeoChat in a project with students to track alcohol
advertisements near schools.
Inveneo Real Time Ground Support, Haiti: Inveneo used
GeoChat during their earthquake relief efforts in Haiti to coordinate
field teams setting up wireless services and provide remote support
from the USA.
27. The Reporting Wheel is a non-electronic
device that simplifies data reporting for
the most remote workers, including
those with literacy challenges.
30. Reporting Wheel:
KEY FEATURES BENEFITS
• Simple and accurate data reporting for
community workers
• Simplifies data reporting for those with
literacy challenges
• Code based reporting work with SMS
or IVR (Interactive Voice Respond)
• Cheap, fast and easy!
32. Resource Mapping helps people track their
work, resources and results geographically in
a collaborative environment accessible from
anywhere.
33. Resource Mapping:
KEY FEATURES BENEFITS
• Visualize your inventory/
resource of each site on the map
• Real time update information
from the field via SMS
• Query your inventory/resource
via SMS
• Public or Private group view of
available resources on map.
• Help to design and build what
you need
34. Resource Mapping:
WHO IS USING IT?
! Children immunization
program in China – Myanmar
border
• Tracking malaria medicine stock
from Health Facility in Cambodia
• Mapping malaria patient test
information and tracking RDT and
ART stock from rural village in
Laos
35.
36. Verboice is a stack of applications,
services, libraries and APIs that give
users and developers different
alternatives to build powerful Interactive
Voice Response solutions.
37. Verboice:
KEY FEATURES BENEFITS
• Stack of applications, services,
libraries APIs
• Users and developers have
alternatives to build powerful
Interactive Voice Response
solutions
• Works for low to no literacy
levels
• Customizable
! Cheap, fast and easy!
38. At InSTEDD, we envision a world where communities
everywhere design and use technology to continuously
improve their health, safety and development.
39. “What
we
do
at
InSTEDD
is
look
at
the
context
and
the
real
mo8va8ons
of
people
and
try
to
give
them
tools
that
they
can
shape.”
Eduardo
Jezierski,
Chief
Technology
Officer,
InSTEDD
