InSTEDD provides innovative support to emergencies involving diseases and disasters around the world. It works with communities to help prevent outbreaks and uses technology to improve health, safety, and development. InSTEDD designs and develops scalable tools to foster collaboration between organizations and enhance information sharing to better help those in need.
InSTEDD is a non-profit founded in 2006 that designs open source technology tools to help organizations collaborate and share information to better respond to diseases, disasters, and improve global health and development. It has innovation labs around the world that bring together experts to develop solutions tailored to local needs. Some of its tools include messaging applications, mobile data collection, and mapping and analytics platforms.
InSTEDD is a non-profit founded in 2006 that designs open source technology tools to help communities collaborate and share information to improve health, safety, and development. It works with governments, organizations, and communities around the world. InSTEDD Innovation Labs (iLabs) act as hubs for technology transfer, collaboration, and entrepreneurial innovation serving the public good in different regions.
Using Technology to Dam the HIV/AIDS Treatment CascadeInSTEDD
This document discusses using technology to improve outcomes in the HIV/AIDS treatment cascade. It provides context on the global scale of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, noting that while 33.2 million people are infected, only 5 million are currently in treatment. It describes challenges in getting people tested, enrolled in care, adhering to treatment. The approach discussed using both social and technical tools to collaborate with local communities to address barriers at each step of the cascade. The organization InSTEDD is highlighted as working to build local capacity and create open source tools to support global health challenges.
StartingBloc Los Angeles Institute 2013 Essay 1: Quingan ZhouQuingan Zhou
Quing wants to use digital innovation to improve global vaccine access and development. Currently, 26 million children do not receive needed vaccinations each year, resulting in 2.4 million preventable deaths. Through StartingBloc, Quing hopes to learn from experts in diverse fields, clarify strategies to address this crisis, and connect with networks that can guide efforts to deliver existing vaccines and accelerate new ones. The goal is to contribute to a future with fewer deaths from preventable diseases.
Learning Strategies for a Transparent World: Achieving Results with Virtual a...Cynthia Clay
This is an exploration of trends that are dramatically changing the nature of training.
We will increase your ideas of collaborative learning through the use of virtual and social technology.
An overview of our integrated learning system for collaborative, social learning: NetSpeed FastTracks
Appreciative Inquiry Case Study_AIP. Aug_2011CORE Group
The document is an introduction to an issue of the International Journal of Appreciative Inquiry focusing on experiences applying Appreciative Inquiry in international development work. It provides context on the origins and spread of AI, outlines some of its core principles, and summarizes several articles in the issue that describe projects using AI in communities in countries such as India, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and with organizations supporting street children. The introduction discusses how AI has been used to increase community participation and empowerment in development initiatives.
Learning Strategies for a Transparent WorldCynthia Clay
The document discusses trends in virtual and social learning. It provides an overview of a webinar presented by Cynthia Clay of NetSpeed Learning Solutions that explored how social technology and virtual learning can increase collaboration. The webinar discussed how social media is changing workplace learning and the need for a blended approach. NetSpeed offers an integrated learning system called Fast Tracks that combines various social learning tools to provide a more engaging experience.
This document discusses the development of a participatory animal health surveillance system in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The system aims to improve surveillance by engaging more people, including farmers, villagers, and consumers. It plans to use smartphones and voice calls to collect reports of abnormal animal situations and product issues. The collected data will then be visualized on a map to help locate farms, markets, and slaughterhouses. The system also seeks to better register all animal farms and provide online education about animal health and food safety to the public. An initial demonstration of the solution's design was presented.
InSTEDD is a non-profit founded in 2006 that designs open source technology tools to help organizations collaborate and share information to better respond to diseases, disasters, and improve global health and development. It has innovation labs around the world that bring together experts to develop solutions tailored to local needs. Some of its tools include messaging applications, mobile data collection, and mapping and analytics platforms.
InSTEDD is a non-profit founded in 2006 that designs open source technology tools to help communities collaborate and share information to improve health, safety, and development. It works with governments, organizations, and communities around the world. InSTEDD Innovation Labs (iLabs) act as hubs for technology transfer, collaboration, and entrepreneurial innovation serving the public good in different regions.
Using Technology to Dam the HIV/AIDS Treatment CascadeInSTEDD
This document discusses using technology to improve outcomes in the HIV/AIDS treatment cascade. It provides context on the global scale of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, noting that while 33.2 million people are infected, only 5 million are currently in treatment. It describes challenges in getting people tested, enrolled in care, adhering to treatment. The approach discussed using both social and technical tools to collaborate with local communities to address barriers at each step of the cascade. The organization InSTEDD is highlighted as working to build local capacity and create open source tools to support global health challenges.
StartingBloc Los Angeles Institute 2013 Essay 1: Quingan ZhouQuingan Zhou
Quing wants to use digital innovation to improve global vaccine access and development. Currently, 26 million children do not receive needed vaccinations each year, resulting in 2.4 million preventable deaths. Through StartingBloc, Quing hopes to learn from experts in diverse fields, clarify strategies to address this crisis, and connect with networks that can guide efforts to deliver existing vaccines and accelerate new ones. The goal is to contribute to a future with fewer deaths from preventable diseases.
Learning Strategies for a Transparent World: Achieving Results with Virtual a...Cynthia Clay
This is an exploration of trends that are dramatically changing the nature of training.
We will increase your ideas of collaborative learning through the use of virtual and social technology.
An overview of our integrated learning system for collaborative, social learning: NetSpeed FastTracks
Appreciative Inquiry Case Study_AIP. Aug_2011CORE Group
The document is an introduction to an issue of the International Journal of Appreciative Inquiry focusing on experiences applying Appreciative Inquiry in international development work. It provides context on the origins and spread of AI, outlines some of its core principles, and summarizes several articles in the issue that describe projects using AI in communities in countries such as India, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and with organizations supporting street children. The introduction discusses how AI has been used to increase community participation and empowerment in development initiatives.
Learning Strategies for a Transparent WorldCynthia Clay
The document discusses trends in virtual and social learning. It provides an overview of a webinar presented by Cynthia Clay of NetSpeed Learning Solutions that explored how social technology and virtual learning can increase collaboration. The webinar discussed how social media is changing workplace learning and the need for a blended approach. NetSpeed offers an integrated learning system called Fast Tracks that combines various social learning tools to provide a more engaging experience.
This document discusses the development of a participatory animal health surveillance system in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The system aims to improve surveillance by engaging more people, including farmers, villagers, and consumers. It plans to use smartphones and voice calls to collect reports of abnormal animal situations and product issues. The collected data will then be visualized on a map to help locate farms, markets, and slaughterhouses. The system also seeks to better register all animal farms and provide online education about animal health and food safety to the public. An initial demonstration of the solution's design was presented.
Innovative and Pragmatic eHealth Solutions at Work: Mekong RegionInSTEDD
InSTEDD is a non-profit organization that works to improve global health, safety, and sustainable development through building local capacity, collaboration technologies, and ensuring usefulness. They develop open-source tools like GeoChat, the Reporting Wheel, and Resource Mapping to help communities detect disease outbreaks, report healthcare data, and track resources. Their goal is to empower communities to design their own sustainable solutions through participatory technology development.
Solutions to Develop Applications for Greater Impact in the Communities Serve...tistalks
For many, the rise of mobile for development makes telecentres obsolete. InSTEDD ‘s webinar presents collaboration alternatives for greater impact of ICT4D.
InSTEDD is a non-profit organization that designs and develops open source technology tools to help communities improve health, safety, and development. Their mission is accomplished through strategic partnerships with organizations around the world, as well as Innovation Labs that help build local capacity. InSTEDD envisions a world where communities everywhere can continuously improve through the use of technology.
This document discusses InSTEDD, an organization that aims to improve global health, safety, and sustainable development through creating collaboration technologies, collaborating with end users, building local capacity, and ensuring usefulness and impact. It provides examples of projects in countries like Haiti, Argentina, and Kenya. InSTEDD supports humanitarian organizations through understanding contexts, creating appropriate technologies, and building local capabilities. Its technology tools are open source, customizable, work on basic phones without internet or literacy requirements, and are low-cost.
A brief introduction to InSTEDD, our mission, the role of our iLabs in creating world-class technology for health, safety and development, and examples of tools available for free to use.
MobileDiagnosis was founded in 2008 by an Italian pathologist to use mobile phone cameras to take microscopic images and send them via text for remote diagnosis, especially to help diagnose malaria in African immigrants. It has since expanded to train local health workers around the world through courses and by establishing rural health centers connected through a global network. The organization aims to promote global access to healthcare and education as human rights.
The document summarizes the work of the UNDP Innovation Facility, which partners with governments, organizations, and companies to test innovative solutions for sustainable development. Some key initiatives described include using behavioral insights and games to drive social change, developing new data sources and technologies for crisis response, and setting up innovation labs within governments and universities. The Facility has supported over 100 initiatives in 72 countries since 2014 to identify solutions and pathways to scale effective approaches.
NetHope is a consortium of 43 leading international nonprofits and technology companies devoted to solving global issues through technology. It creates a collaborative framework for its members to share resources, best practices, and expertise to increase the impact of their programs. Public-private partnerships are key, providing access to products, funding, and expertise from partners like Microsoft, Cisco, and USAID. NetHope also experiments with new technologies, such as developing a broadband network for a refugee camp serving over 500,000 people and creating an IT training program that has helped over 1,000 youth find employment.
NetHope connects, collaborates with, and helps international NGOs innovatively address pressing global challenges through technology. Over the past decade, NetHope has grown from 7 to over 30 member NGOs and facilitated partnerships between NGOs and companies to develop solutions in areas like emergency response, field capacity building, and innovation for development. Moving forward, NetHope aims to further accelerate connections between organizations, broaden collaborations, and spark innovations to create sustainable positive change worldwide.
Unicef Innovation Unit Annual Report July 2012-July 2013 Christopher Fabian
The report summarizes UNICEF's innovation initiatives from July 2012 to July 2013. It focuses on three main areas: models for accelerating innovation which includes guides, frameworks and partnerships; systems and tools to address needs of vulnerable communities; and research on key issues. Some highlights include the Community Health Worker Backpack, 1000 Days project, UNICEF Ventures and the Innovation Fund under models. Initiatives under systems and tools are RapidSMS for health services in Rwanda, Results160 for patient tracing, and RemindMi and Anthrowatch for health information and nutrition monitoring.
This document describes a project to develop a quality improvement system for community programs in Namibia that support children impacted by HIV/AIDS. The author conducted field visits to understand challenges faced by local programs. They then designed a collaborative process to create monitoring tools that promote routine innovation, track outcomes, and comply with quality standards. This included piloting tools with local teams and training community workers to implement the system, ensuring it was adapted to local needs and contexts. The goal was to support continuous quality improvement and sharing of effective practices across the 80 project sites.
InSTEDD focuses on four key areas: maternal/child health, infectious diseases, emergency management, and local innovation/leadership. It uses a social-technical approach and human-centered design process to develop technology tools and solutions for health challenges. Examples of tools include GeoChat for collaboration, Remindem for messaging, and Resource Map for tracking resources geographically.
This document discusses Microsoft's vision and efforts around digital transformation in education. It highlights Microsoft's goals of empowering every person to achieve more through technology and helping redefine learning both in and out of the classroom. The document outlines several of Microsoft's education tools and initiatives like OneNote Class Notebook, Minecraft for education, and tools to accommodate different learning styles. It also discusses Microsoft's framework to help guide education systems through digital transformation.
This presentation was given by Julia Day at a research communications capacity building workshop at the Institute of Development Studies in April 2008.
RTI International's Center for Communication Science promotes informed decision making through strategic communication research, interventions, and campaigns. They develop evidence-based solutions to facilitate human-centered communication and influence behavior change. Their services include designing communication strategies and tools, conducting research, and delivering programs to create social impact.
The document discusses ADB's engagement with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) with a focus on using information and communication technologies (ICT). It provides background on ADB's mission to reduce poverty in developing countries and its recognition of CSOs role in strengthening development efforts through innovation, accountability, and participation. Examples are given of ADB partnering with CSOs to connect remote schools in Samoa and provide health education to ethnic minorities using ICT. The document emphasizes that adopting appropriate technologies along with enabling policies, capacity building, partnerships, and sustained support are needed to drive meaningful and lasting change.
UNICEF Innovation Labs bring together experts from various sectors to develop solutions for global challenges. There are currently labs in Uganda, Kosovo, and Zimbabwe, with plans to expand the network to 9 additional countries. The labs collaborate across sectors and internationally to create open-source products, software, and partnerships focused on issues like health, education, and rural development. They emphasize principles like user-centered design, collaboration, scalability, and sustainability.
How to build TRUST and Engagement: MICROSOFT & UNICEFMarina Decuseara
Microsoft and UNICEF both focus on building trust through competence, benevolence, integrity, transparency, and identification with their stakeholders' values. Microsoft strives for accessible, innovative technology and supports humanitarian causes. UNICEF provides humanitarian assistance to children globally and works to protect children's rights. Both organizations emphasize open communication and accountability to maintain trust with the public.
Opendream is a social innovation organization that uses ICT to help social benefit organizations collaborate and learn more effectively. Its vision is for ICT to become a major platform for social collaboration. Its mission is to be a top provider of ICT solutions for social innovation in Thailand and Southeast Asia. It aims to address the problem that while ICT is widely used for collaboration, few social organizations utilize it to its full potential. Opendream provides ICT consulting and implementation services to improve existing organizations' use of technology and digital expertise.
The new Pandemic Preparedness Citizen's Guide, edited by Sarah Booth, Kelsey Hills-Evans & Scott Teesdale to incorporate information around the recent COVID-19 pandemic.
Disease Reporting Hotline Launches to Stop Outbreaks in Cambodia InSTEDD
To improve disease reporting in Cambodia, the iLab Southeast Asia, in partnership with the Cambodian CDC and Skoll Global Threats Fund, launched a free to the public disease hotline built with InSTEDD's interactive voice response tool, Verboice.
Cambodia is in a 'hot zone region', susceptible to deadly disease spread. Timely reports from Health Centers across the country are critical to stopping outbreaks.
Innovative and Pragmatic eHealth Solutions at Work: Mekong RegionInSTEDD
InSTEDD is a non-profit organization that works to improve global health, safety, and sustainable development through building local capacity, collaboration technologies, and ensuring usefulness. They develop open-source tools like GeoChat, the Reporting Wheel, and Resource Mapping to help communities detect disease outbreaks, report healthcare data, and track resources. Their goal is to empower communities to design their own sustainable solutions through participatory technology development.
Solutions to Develop Applications for Greater Impact in the Communities Serve...tistalks
For many, the rise of mobile for development makes telecentres obsolete. InSTEDD ‘s webinar presents collaboration alternatives for greater impact of ICT4D.
InSTEDD is a non-profit organization that designs and develops open source technology tools to help communities improve health, safety, and development. Their mission is accomplished through strategic partnerships with organizations around the world, as well as Innovation Labs that help build local capacity. InSTEDD envisions a world where communities everywhere can continuously improve through the use of technology.
This document discusses InSTEDD, an organization that aims to improve global health, safety, and sustainable development through creating collaboration technologies, collaborating with end users, building local capacity, and ensuring usefulness and impact. It provides examples of projects in countries like Haiti, Argentina, and Kenya. InSTEDD supports humanitarian organizations through understanding contexts, creating appropriate technologies, and building local capabilities. Its technology tools are open source, customizable, work on basic phones without internet or literacy requirements, and are low-cost.
A brief introduction to InSTEDD, our mission, the role of our iLabs in creating world-class technology for health, safety and development, and examples of tools available for free to use.
MobileDiagnosis was founded in 2008 by an Italian pathologist to use mobile phone cameras to take microscopic images and send them via text for remote diagnosis, especially to help diagnose malaria in African immigrants. It has since expanded to train local health workers around the world through courses and by establishing rural health centers connected through a global network. The organization aims to promote global access to healthcare and education as human rights.
The document summarizes the work of the UNDP Innovation Facility, which partners with governments, organizations, and companies to test innovative solutions for sustainable development. Some key initiatives described include using behavioral insights and games to drive social change, developing new data sources and technologies for crisis response, and setting up innovation labs within governments and universities. The Facility has supported over 100 initiatives in 72 countries since 2014 to identify solutions and pathways to scale effective approaches.
NetHope is a consortium of 43 leading international nonprofits and technology companies devoted to solving global issues through technology. It creates a collaborative framework for its members to share resources, best practices, and expertise to increase the impact of their programs. Public-private partnerships are key, providing access to products, funding, and expertise from partners like Microsoft, Cisco, and USAID. NetHope also experiments with new technologies, such as developing a broadband network for a refugee camp serving over 500,000 people and creating an IT training program that has helped over 1,000 youth find employment.
NetHope connects, collaborates with, and helps international NGOs innovatively address pressing global challenges through technology. Over the past decade, NetHope has grown from 7 to over 30 member NGOs and facilitated partnerships between NGOs and companies to develop solutions in areas like emergency response, field capacity building, and innovation for development. Moving forward, NetHope aims to further accelerate connections between organizations, broaden collaborations, and spark innovations to create sustainable positive change worldwide.
Unicef Innovation Unit Annual Report July 2012-July 2013 Christopher Fabian
The report summarizes UNICEF's innovation initiatives from July 2012 to July 2013. It focuses on three main areas: models for accelerating innovation which includes guides, frameworks and partnerships; systems and tools to address needs of vulnerable communities; and research on key issues. Some highlights include the Community Health Worker Backpack, 1000 Days project, UNICEF Ventures and the Innovation Fund under models. Initiatives under systems and tools are RapidSMS for health services in Rwanda, Results160 for patient tracing, and RemindMi and Anthrowatch for health information and nutrition monitoring.
This document describes a project to develop a quality improvement system for community programs in Namibia that support children impacted by HIV/AIDS. The author conducted field visits to understand challenges faced by local programs. They then designed a collaborative process to create monitoring tools that promote routine innovation, track outcomes, and comply with quality standards. This included piloting tools with local teams and training community workers to implement the system, ensuring it was adapted to local needs and contexts. The goal was to support continuous quality improvement and sharing of effective practices across the 80 project sites.
InSTEDD focuses on four key areas: maternal/child health, infectious diseases, emergency management, and local innovation/leadership. It uses a social-technical approach and human-centered design process to develop technology tools and solutions for health challenges. Examples of tools include GeoChat for collaboration, Remindem for messaging, and Resource Map for tracking resources geographically.
This document discusses Microsoft's vision and efforts around digital transformation in education. It highlights Microsoft's goals of empowering every person to achieve more through technology and helping redefine learning both in and out of the classroom. The document outlines several of Microsoft's education tools and initiatives like OneNote Class Notebook, Minecraft for education, and tools to accommodate different learning styles. It also discusses Microsoft's framework to help guide education systems through digital transformation.
This presentation was given by Julia Day at a research communications capacity building workshop at the Institute of Development Studies in April 2008.
RTI International's Center for Communication Science promotes informed decision making through strategic communication research, interventions, and campaigns. They develop evidence-based solutions to facilitate human-centered communication and influence behavior change. Their services include designing communication strategies and tools, conducting research, and delivering programs to create social impact.
The document discusses ADB's engagement with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) with a focus on using information and communication technologies (ICT). It provides background on ADB's mission to reduce poverty in developing countries and its recognition of CSOs role in strengthening development efforts through innovation, accountability, and participation. Examples are given of ADB partnering with CSOs to connect remote schools in Samoa and provide health education to ethnic minorities using ICT. The document emphasizes that adopting appropriate technologies along with enabling policies, capacity building, partnerships, and sustained support are needed to drive meaningful and lasting change.
UNICEF Innovation Labs bring together experts from various sectors to develop solutions for global challenges. There are currently labs in Uganda, Kosovo, and Zimbabwe, with plans to expand the network to 9 additional countries. The labs collaborate across sectors and internationally to create open-source products, software, and partnerships focused on issues like health, education, and rural development. They emphasize principles like user-centered design, collaboration, scalability, and sustainability.
How to build TRUST and Engagement: MICROSOFT & UNICEFMarina Decuseara
Microsoft and UNICEF both focus on building trust through competence, benevolence, integrity, transparency, and identification with their stakeholders' values. Microsoft strives for accessible, innovative technology and supports humanitarian causes. UNICEF provides humanitarian assistance to children globally and works to protect children's rights. Both organizations emphasize open communication and accountability to maintain trust with the public.
Opendream is a social innovation organization that uses ICT to help social benefit organizations collaborate and learn more effectively. Its vision is for ICT to become a major platform for social collaboration. Its mission is to be a top provider of ICT solutions for social innovation in Thailand and Southeast Asia. It aims to address the problem that while ICT is widely used for collaboration, few social organizations utilize it to its full potential. Opendream provides ICT consulting and implementation services to improve existing organizations' use of technology and digital expertise.
The new Pandemic Preparedness Citizen's Guide, edited by Sarah Booth, Kelsey Hills-Evans & Scott Teesdale to incorporate information around the recent COVID-19 pandemic.
Disease Reporting Hotline Launches to Stop Outbreaks in Cambodia InSTEDD
To improve disease reporting in Cambodia, the iLab Southeast Asia, in partnership with the Cambodian CDC and Skoll Global Threats Fund, launched a free to the public disease hotline built with InSTEDD's interactive voice response tool, Verboice.
Cambodia is in a 'hot zone region', susceptible to deadly disease spread. Timely reports from Health Centers across the country are critical to stopping outbreaks.
At the Epihack Rio event, public health experts and technologists worked together to prototype new solutions to prevent disease spread. Over the course of the event, participants engaged in discussions to identify priority issues, formed cross-disciplinary teams, and worked intensely to develop mobile applications and data visualization tools to support health monitoring and reporting, especially around mass gatherings like the Olympics. The prototypes were presented at the end to seek feedback on their potential real-world applications.
This document discusses mHealth (mobile health) technologies and their implementation in Cambodia and other countries. It provides examples of mHealth projects that use SMS, voice calls, and smartphone apps to facilitate: (1) routine infectious disease reporting from health centers; (2) grassroots malaria case reporting and referral of patients; (3) inventory alerts of malaria drug stocks; (4) reproductive health services and education for families; and (5) health information and services for garment factory workers, new mothers, and diabetics. The document emphasizes using simple mobile technologies to enhance information sharing and improve health services for communities with limited Internet access or literacy.
This document proposes a new system to improve wildlife sickness reporting in three main ways:
1. It would provide rangers with an easier, faster mobile reporting method through a short online form or phone hotline to submit data like the species, number of sick/dead animals, location, and photos in real-time.
2. All reports would be collected in a unified, online database displayed on an interactive map for officials to quickly detect abnormal patterns or potential outbreaks and take immediate action.
3. The system would also include configurable SMS alerts to notify Ministry officials of unusual case counts in real-time for better monitoring of wildlife health trends connected to public health systems.
Mobile technologies landscape and opportunity for civil society organizations...InSTEDD
Channe talks about how mobile technologies can help Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) do more with less. Channe will tackle practical issues like how to get started and their process of design and implementation. Channe will walk you through several exciting projects, including mobile technologies in labor rights and health care and the use of mobile phone as a data collection tool.
When: 3:30 - 5:00pm. Friday 7th February 2014
Where: Himawari Hotel, Phnom Penh
Organized by: Development Innovations
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mobile-technologies-landscape-and-opportunity-for-csos-in-cambodia-tickets-10444502789
Routine infectious disease reporting using SMS at Kean Svay operational distr...InSTEDD
This document discusses a project in Southeast Asia that developed technology tools to improve infectious disease reporting from health centers to operational districts. The tools aimed to enhance collaboration and information sharing. Previously, health centers reported diseases via radio, phone calls, or paper which caused delays. The new system allowed health centers to send weekly SMS reports on 12 diseases using standardized codes. This enabled earlier detection and response to outbreaks. The SMS system launched in 2010 and was later improved in 2011 with the addition of a reporting wheel to simplify coding. By 2012 an online application was created to aggregate reporting data.
Verboice - Voice based platform and impact to grassroots CambodiaInSTEDD
Verboice is a voice-based platform that uses open source technology to help partners improve information sharing and service delivery in their communities. It has been used successfully in projects in over 15 countries. Examples of projects using Verboice in Cambodia include a phone-based contraception support system for Marie Stopes clinics, a national election hotline providing basic election information, and an interactive phone quiz for garment factory workers on issues like salaries and health. The document discusses Verboice and its impact on empowering grassroots organizations in Cambodia through technology.
The iLab Southeast Asia presented at BarCamp Phnom Penh 2012 on how to use Google's Map Maker application. The iLab SEA team trained participants on how to add and edit locations, draw streets, rivers, and other important landmarks on the Google map.
"Technology with a Purpose" - Eduardo Jezierski speaks at Ignite Health Foo 2...InSTEDD
This document discusses various projects and initiatives by InSTEDD including developing tools for collecting birth complication data in Sierra Leone, running innovation labs in Cambodia and elsewhere, using mobile tools like GeoChat to help health workers in Thailand during floods, and detecting and containing a leptospirosis outbreak faster through discussion on such tools. It also references principles of collective action, data as an extractive industry, the use of mobile information systems in Haiti after the earthquake, and launching high-altitude balloons to inspire new perspectives on Earth. Overall the document touches on InSTEDD's work using technology to help address global health challenges and promote positive change.
Mobile health (mHealth) technologies show promise for improving HIV treatment and prevention by allowing healthcare providers to remotely monitor patients and disseminate medical information. The authors review several mHealth initiatives that have increased access to HIV testing and treatment through the use of text messages, video observations, and other mobile platforms. If designed and implemented properly, mHealth could help reduce costs and expand care for HIV-positive individuals around the world.
With a worldwide penetration rate of over 85%, the mobile phone has become one of the most transformative tools in human history. As mobile communication technologies become less expensive, faster, and more accessible, the ability of people, communities and institutions to share information and knowledge will continue to skyrocket. Specifically for Global Health, the use of mobile communication and network technologies for delivery of health care (mHealth) holds great promise for the future. In low resource settings, community health workers (CHWs) provide a backbone for the delivery of health care services. Often isolated and without significant formal education or training, CHWs can be seen as key connectors between their communities and the formal health care system. In the hands of CHWs, mHealth tools may facilitate effective task shifting; by expanding the pool of human resources, increasing the productivity of health systems, and lowering the cost of services. The reported experience with mHealth suggest a wide range of opportunities exist to improve ease, speed, completeness and accuracy of the work of CHWs. The outcomes associated with these sort of new capabilities can be expected to result in ongoing improvements in performance on key national health indicators. The presentation will examine the state of the art and science-- by describing a systematic review of the literature and citing examples in action -- and provide recommendations focused on the design and development of mHealth tools for use by CHWs to strengthen Global Health interventions.
Speaker Bio:
Dennis M. Israelski, M.D
www.instedd.org/team
Presentation by Channe Suy of the iLab Southeast Asia speaking at TEDxPhnom Penh. To see the video of this presentation, please go here: http://instedd.org/blog/from-the-ted-prize-to-tedxphnom-penh/
RIO 2.0 was a demo alley event focused on building technologies for social impact. Dennis M. Israelski, the President and CEO of InSTEDD and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, presented on February 2, 2011 about InSTEDD's work on real time malaria reporting.
The InSTEDD Toolkit provides a collection of open source tools to help improve collaboration, innovation, and resiliency. The tools include messaging applications, opinion and status collection, information extraction, task management, disease monitoring, and more. All tools are available for anyone to use and build upon to increase social impact. InSTEDD is actively involved with users to evolve the tools and maximize positive outcomes.
This document describes mHealth tools developed by InSTEDD to help prevent maternal-to-child transmission of HIV, including Remindem for sending reminders via text, Verboice for interactive voice messages, Resource Map for tracking health resources, and Pollit for conducting mobile surveys. The tools are designed to help improve adherence to treatment, identify available prevention and treatment resources, fight stigma, and engage communities.
Leach lemens 2009-using mobile phones in hiv care and preventionInSTEDD
Mobile phones are being used increasingly in HIV care and prevention in developing countries. Three examples are:
1) Cell-Life in South Africa uses mobile phones to support treatment adherence, send health messages, and help community health workers monitor patients remotely. Initial results found this improved quality of care.
2) Project Masiluleke sends over 1 million text messages per day encouraging HIV/TB testing. Calls to testing hotlines tripled after message campaigns.
3) UHIN in Uganda gives health workers smartphones to file reports, access training, and consult specialists remotely, increasing efficiency.
A technology selection framework for supporting delivery of patient-oriented ...InSTEDD
This article proposes a framework for selecting patient-oriented health information technologies (HIT) in developing countries. The framework consists of three levels of factors to consider: 1) situational factors related to the local context, 2) characteristics of the technology and how it relates to the health intervention and target patients, and 3) available empirical evidence. The framework is intended to guide technology selection and reduce waste by considering relevant constraints and narrowing options at each level. The article demonstrates how the framework could be applied to select mobile phones to deliver behavioral interventions for cardiovascular disease prevention in developing countries.
Using digital videos displayed on personal digital assistants (pd_as) to enha...InSTEDD
This document describes a study that evaluated using digital videos on personal digital assistants (PDAs) to enhance patient education in clinical settings. 51 patients with HIV/AIDS watched a 17-minute video on a PDA about their disease and medication regimen. Participants showed statistically significant improvements in knowledge and adherence based on pre- and post-video surveys conducted on the PDA. At follow-up 4-6 weeks later, participants continued to report better adherence. The study demonstrated that PDAs can effectively deliver health information to patients.
E-health technologies show promise in developing countriesInSTEDD
Three evaluations of e-health technologies in developing countries found promising results:
1) Systems that improved communication between institutions helped order and manage medications and monitor patients who may abandon care.
2) Personal digital assistants and mobile devices were effective at improving data collection time and quality.
3) Donors and funders should require and sponsor outside evaluations to ensure future e-health investments are well-targeted.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
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Overview
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12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
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2. Working with a community in
Mukdahan, Thailand to help
prevent disease outbreaks
such as malaria and dengue.
We envision a world where
communities everywhere
our vision
design and use technology
to continually improve their
health, safety and
development.
3. The iLab Southeast Asia team
tests one of our tools with a
doctor in a rural clinic outside
of Phnom Penh, Cambodia,
• Building Capacity
within communities to foster a
local culture of innovation
our mission • Creating Collaboration Tools
for social good
is to improve health, safety and • Collaborating with End Users
through a human-centered
sustainable development by: design and development process
• Ensuring Usefulness & Impact
through research and evaluation
4. A nurse checks a child from a nearby rural village
into the main hospital in Mukdahan, Thailand.
InSTEDD was created by Google.org, the
Rockefeller Foundation, TED and others to
catalyze collective action for detection and
response to global public health threats.
who we are We have expanded upon that original vision
into a non-profit organization focused on
using a blend of social and technical
approaches to improve global health, safety
and sustainable development.
5. our Social Responsibility:
Progress can be made in reducing human suffering,
values death, and disease on a local and global level. We believe
we have a responsibility to use all our skills, knowledge
and experience to make a positive impact on global
health and safety.
As an organization, Collaboration:
Collaboration is a driving force in overcoming silos and
we are committed to divisions, allowing different communities and sectors to
guide our work work together effectively to achieve common goals. We
shape our programs and technologies to support and
towards a vision enhance local and global collaboration aimed at achieving
meaningful social impact.
based on shared
values. Agility:
We believe the most effective programs and technologies
are flexible and iterative and are built on joint participation
of the communities they are meant to serve. 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.
In January 2010, InSTEDD participated in the first Bar Camp Yangon (Myanmar). As of
January 2010, this was the largest Bar Camp in history with more than 3000 participants
6. Health workers in rural Thailand test InSTEDD technology.
This team uses the popular tool, GeoChat, primarily for
disease reporting and outbreak response coordination.
InSTEDD designs and develops scalable,
what we do
easy to use, low cost technologies for
social impact. By helping partners enhance
collaboration, share knowledge and improve
information flow, communities can better
deliver critical services to those in need.
7. our approach
InSTEDD supports humanitarian
organizations, local
communities, and government
ministries by lling the
communication gaps that
hinder collaboration. We use a
unique and effective
combination of human-
centered design, software
development, domain expertise
and local leadership.
Touring a lab facility in
Cambodia with the National
We work with governments, Institute of Public Health.
universities, corporations,
international health organizations, NGOs and local communities around the world. We go to the field to listen
and learn about the challenges and opportunities. Where solutions already exist, we integrate them. If another
technology can be adapted to meet the need, we re-purpose it. If a genuine gap is found where no solution
exists and no market pressures are driving the necessary innovation, then we design and develop low cost,
scalable open source tools ourselves.
Our work is guided by these basic principles:
Agile Development Local Capacity Building Open Architecture, Open Source
We work closely with end-users Our local partners participate in Our systems conform to a set of
and stakeholders, creating and the full life cycle of new system architectural principles that allow
adapting software to address the design — rapid prototyping, them to be used as-is or as
most pressing needs from the design, development, quality building blocks for larger
field. As a result, culturally assurance and field support in the solutions. Our tools can be used
appropriate designs that local language, culture and locally or globally in innovative
empower the end-users appear context — thus creating a long- ways as a platform for social and
faster, as do new and productive term asset for the country. humanitarian programs.
uses for the applications.
8. An aerial view of the Mekong River sub-basin
region, a hot zone for infectious disease such
as H1N1, HIV, TB and Malaria. InSTEDD
works throughout the region to use, design
and develop technologies for early detection
and better response to public health threats.
InSTEDD’s innovative approach,
which facilitates collective action by local
partners, is being successfully applied around
where we
the world — from pioneering efforts to
integrate disease surveillance and response
systems in Southeast Asia to implementation
of a nationwide communications system to aid
work
victims of the Haiti earthquake in 2010.
We have worked in over 15 countries,
including Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia,
China, Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Kenya, Laos,
Mexico, Mozambique, Rwanda, Thailand,
USA, Vietnam, Zimbabwe.
9. our Argentina
Bangladesh
Haiti
Indonesia
Mexico
Mozambique
Thailand
USA
Cambodia Kenya Rwanda Vietnam
projects China Laos Ghana Zimbabwe
Our work is often focused on addressing life-threatening
gaps in communication and knowledge sharing. At the local
InSTEDD’s approach
level our projects have ranged from implementing an
facilitates collective appointment reminder system for HIV patients in Cambodia
action by local partners to supporting maternal child health workers in Mexico in text-
and is being successfully messaging life-saving information to their patients. At the
applied globally. policy level, we are advising organizations like the United
Nations, the World Health Organization, and the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control on the strategic implementation of health
information systems and collaboration technology ventures.
In addition, we design comprehensive research processes to
rigorously evaluate the role of technology in creating a
positive impact worldwide.
10. American Red Cross Watchfire Emergency Response System (EIS)
With a grant from Cisco, we worked with the We worked with the Thomson Reuters Foundation
American Red Cross to develop Watchfire, a tool to provide the backbone that supported agencies
with potential to significantly decrease time using SMS in the relief efforts after the 2010 Haiti
required to mobilize community responders to earthquake. We tested in the UK and Indonesia.
disasters.
US Veterans Administration (VA) Innovation Lab (iLab) Latin America
We consulted the VA on the use of web- In 2011, we launched our second iLab in Buenos
monitoring tools, social media aggregation Aires, Argentina with the goal of building
analysis and collaborative decision support technological capacity for addressing health,
technology to improve the early detection of safety and sustainable development issues in the
disease events. Latin American region.
Electronic Communications for Health Health Informatics Public Private Partnership
Organizations (ECHO) (HIPPP)
We worked with the NYC Department of Health This project focuses on promoting health system
to build ECHO, a tool that improves their ability strengthening within multiple developing
to gather emergency preparedness and countries , including Cambodia, Kenya, Rwanda,
response-related data in the field. Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
11. Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Lao PDR/Thailand Cross Border
Committee (BRAC) Communication
We partnered with BRAC to improve their mobile Health workers on the Lao PDR/Thailand border
health and development programs by increasing the are using InSTEDD tools to improve local
reach of SMS and voice services to all 150 million coordination and cross border communications
citizens of Bangladesh. around disease surveillance and response.
Clinton Health Access Initiative/Cambodia Thai Bureau of Epidemiology (BOE) Influenza
National Malaria Center (CHAI/CNM) Surveillance System
We are working with CHAI/CNM to provide The Thai BOE built upon InSTEDD tools to send
mobile tools to help eliminate malaria through mobile alerts and reminders as part of a
real-time nationwide case reports and anti- nationwide influenza-like illness surveillance
malaria stock level control. system.
Innovation Lab (iLab) Southeast Asia Thai Surveillance and Rapid Response Teams
In 2008, with funding from Google.org, the (SRRTs)
Rockefeller Foundation and others we launched the InSTEDD tools have been used to improve
first iLab located in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to build communication between the SRRTs, village
regional capacity for the use, design and health volunteers, livestock staff, provincial
development of ICT tools to control and prevent health staff, and emergency medical response
disease outbreaks. teams.
12. Touring a hospital facility in Thailand in
order to learn current workflows and
identify opportunities to improve the speed
and accuracy of disease reporting.
InSTEDD supports communities by identifying gaps
in collaboration that can be filled with user-friendly
technologies and services. By working in the field
where the “rubber hits the road”, we join forces with
how we our local partners to create the solutions to their
most challenging problems.
This unique “social-technical” approach achieves
work
fast, scalable, low-cost solutions that are aligned
with local priorities.
The InSTEDD Innovation Labs ensure ongoing,
locally driven improvements to the tools based on
the evolving needs of the communities they serve.
The iLabs play a central role in ensuring positive
social impact beyond the life of a single project.
13. GeoChat Resource Map
GeoChat is a collaboration tool that allows Resource Map helps people track their work,
anyone to chat, report, and get alerts offline resources and results geographically in a
through SMS or online on their computers. collaborative environment.
Mesh4x Riff
Mesh4X is a set of libraries, services and Riff is a tool that helps groups analyze and
applications that allow data to be synchronized visualize multiple streams of information and
across multiple applications, databases and files. collaborate over live data.
Nuntium Seentags
Nuntium is a tool that allows anyone to build Seentags is a service that helps extract
robust and scalable messaging applications. accurate information from text reports.
Pollit Task Me Up
Pollit helps you collect opinions, feedback and Task Me Up helps you collaborate around
status updates from people, wherever they roam. unorganized data to better process information.
Remindem Veeglio
Remindem helps you keep people informed of Veegilo aggregates disease indicator numbers
important things going on in their life and work. from national databases into a common space.
Reporting Wheel Verboice
The Reporting Wheel is a non-electronic device Verboice is a highly customizable application
that simplifies data reporting for the most remote that empowers users and developers to build
workers, including those with literacy challenges. their own interactive voice response systems.
Based on years of experience around the world,
we have created a suite of tools and services. All
of our tools can used individually or integrated
our
together as building blocks for larger solutions.
InSTEDD technologies meet or exceed the relevant
standards for their domain and allow the reliable
and secure sharing of data with other systems.
tools All of these technologies are open source and
freely available for anyone wanting to use them.
Each of these tools can be tailored to individual
needs and integrated with other tools. We are
actively engaged with our users and continue to
evolve and scale the tool capabilities in order to
maximize positive social impact.
14. Three young girls play in the
courtyard of a hospital outside
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, while
their parents receive treatment.
15.
16. The iLab Southeast Asia team works
with a community in Cambodia to
test tools developed for improving
malaria control and prevention.
InSTEDD’s Innovation Labs build local
capacity for designing and developing
our
technologies for social good. Each iLab
promotes cross-sector collaborations that
bring people together to explore solutions
to regional health, safety and development
iLabs problems. By working collaboratively and
across disciplines to create a positive
impact, the iLabs are promising social
enterprises.
17. iLab
Southeast Asia
iLab
Latin America
InSTEDD iLabs act as enabling environments for technology
innovation transfer and collaboration between software developers,
governments, NGOs, universities, private sector companies,
labs local communities and experts from a variety of disciplines.
Our approach is a unique blend iLab Southeast Asia iLab Latin America
of the social and technological In 2008, InSTEDD launched the The iLab Latin America, our
first iLab, located in Phnom Penh, second iLab founded in 2011 and
development spheres, which
Cambodia, with the goal of located in Buenos Aires,
have traditionally worked on
building technological capacity for Argentina, is the result of a
problem solving in isolation from addressing health, safety and partnership between InSTEDD
each other. The nations, developmental issues in the and Manas, a Buenos Aires-
communities, and local Mekong Basin. based software development and
organizations we assist know consulting firm.
best what their challenges and
needs are, and we in turn count KNOWLEDGE SKILLS LEADERSHIP
on their knowledge and
leadership to help develop
solutions that address the Representative projects include Our Latin America team is helping
unique needs of each working closely with Cambodia NGOs, governments, social
context. The iLab strategy Communicable Disease Control entrepreneurs and other
focuses on a combination of to strengthen the agency’s organizations in the region design
user-centered design, agile internal communication by using and use collaboration technology
InSTEDD’s technology and tools to better deliver critical
software development
assisting the National Center for services to vulnerable
techniques, and creative cross-
HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STD populations, while building and
disciplinary collaboration. (NCHADS) to develop an optimizing their technological
appointment reminder system as capacities to support their
an extension to their current humanitarian work.
patient information system.
18. InSTEDD’s network of strategic partners
include community groups, government
agencies, leading universities, private sector
companies, and humanitarian organizations.
our network Our interdisciplinary team of public health
experts, scientists, and software engineers
works closely with leading consultants and
strategic partners in Asia, Africa, Europe and
the Americas to develop solutions to health,
safety and development problems.
19. Port-au-Prince was catastrophically affected by the
January 2010 earthquake. Countless structures were
damaged and over 230,000 people were killed.
The EIS service was part of an ecosystem of organizations
and tools revolving around mobile services provided through
the ‘4636’ short code. EIS allowed people in Haiti to report
project
problems (missing persons, shelter, food issues) over SMS
and to get accurate information by neighborhood.
InSTEDD’s Nuntium message hub had direct connections to
profile Haitian telecommunications companies, through which
incoming aid requests were received in Haitian Creole,
routed to Riff/EIS for analysis, shared with other
organizations to translate, tag, geocode, visualize and
dispatch.
Emergency Information
The Haitian government worked together with other NGOs
System (EIS) to send information messages to the population to help
cope with subsequent threats and accelerate their recovery.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti We worked on the airfield in Port au Prince helping with the
setup and use of the technologies and remained for the
duration of the Search and Rescue phase. In addition, we
received a US State Department letter of gratitude for our
work with the UN Search and Rescue Dispatch Center.
20. A father holds his
sick childʼs IV bag
up as they receive
treatment at a local
health center.
While technologies developed today may meet
current needs, it is impossible to accurately
predict the needs of the future. In order to
ensure that impact is sustained long term,
having strong local capacity to develop the next
wave of solutions is critical. The people within
our impact the communities we serve best understand the
challenges and why they occur, therefore, are
the best ones to lead the process of designing
and implementing a solution. With the support
of technology, those in need can be better
connected to valuable resources and important
contacts which helps those in the field do their
work more effectively.
21. Millennium Development Goals 4, 5 & 6
strategy Reduce Child Mortality | Improve Maternal Health | Combat Major Diseases
Achieving the MDGs requires local and international collaboration. We help
areas partners accelerate and measure progress towards achieving the MDGs by
supporting existing procedures and protocols recommended by the WHO as
well as explore new opportunities that tap into the emergent power of mobile
Through a human-centered technology.
process of software
➡ Mobile technology and medical record systems integration to
development, community support HIV worker and patient communication
leadership and on-the-job ➡ Design and roll out of national Malaria elimination applications using
mobile phones
training, InSTEDD uses a ➡ Platform of free and open source tools that can easily, quickly and
“social-technical” approach cheaply be extended to implement new applications and workflows at
to develop solutions that national scale
support health, safety and
Community Resilience
sustainable development. Communities and the agencies that support their wellbeing regularly suffer due
to lack of information and coordination. We improve community resilience by
using context appropriate collaboration tools that improve internal and external
communication.
➡ Mobile based alerts & reminders for health workers and
patients
➡ Database synchronization software to support information
sharing
➡ Mobile integration of health record systems
➡ Disaster and post-conflict response tools built on top of
collaboration and machine-based analytics software
Early Warning and Response
The most effective way to deal with emerging threats is through a rapid early
warning and early response system. We work with field workers and decision
makers throughout the health information hierarchy to help them share
information and quickly coordinate responses.
➡ Disease surveillance and rapid response team coordination
➡ Field epidemiology tools for disease outbreak analysis
➡ Web-monitoring tools, social media aggregation analysis and
collaborative decision support technology to improve early
detection of disease events
Local Capacity Building
By listening to our users and incorporating their input, we ensure the cultural
appropriateness and the sustainability of our products. We work with local
partners throughout the full life cycle of new system design — rapid
prototyping, design, development, quality assurance and field support in the
local language, culture and context — thus creating a long-term asset for the
country.
➡ Innovation Labs in Southeast Asia and Latin America
➡ Public-private partnerships to promote health system
strengthening within multiple developing countries
➡ Sponsorship & participation in local events such as TEDx, Bar
Camps and Foo Camps
22.
23. No two places, problems, or cultures are exactly
alike. Our goal is to find a solution that is
efficient, effective and appropriate for each
situation.
get We believe that everything can be built in smaller,
useful parts, delivering value in weeks and not
years.
involved Whether you need help refining your idea, doing
user-centered field design, defining a new
architecture, or building software, our experience
can help you achieve your goals.
Contact us at info@instedd.org
for more information.
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