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Science, Technology & Innovation in Global Health

vraymond — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:35:11 +0000

USAID’s IMPACT blog explores the potential impact and outreach of the MOTECH mHealth initiative. Read more here

The BBC on healthcare apps that fight poverty in Asia

vraymond — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:09:21 +0000

Dimagi Software Innovation’s Country Director Matt Theis weighs in on the ability of technology to affect change in poverty, education, and health in Asia and around the world. Visit the BBC here for his interview.

Making healthcare mobile in the developing world

vraymond — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:54:35 +0000

Question: What technological device do 79 per cent of developing country citizens have access to which could help improve their health?

Answer: A mobile phone.

Read more here on WorldVison’s ChildHealthNow site.

Dimagi at the Frugal Innovation Forum

vraymond — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:08:36 +0000

Last month, BRAC’s Social Innovation Lab hosted development practitioners and innovators from across South Asia to the first “Frugal Innovation Forum — Scaling Simple Solutions” for a weekend of sharing, learning and problem-solving in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dimagi India’s Devika Sarin, had the opportunity to attend the conference, and speak to the group about the effective use and scaling of technology, with tools as basic as mobile phones to improve health services and access for underserved populations. Check out a video of reactions from the Frugal Innovation Forum here

Business Insider: Spotlight on Jonathan Jackson

vraymond — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:44:43 +0000

Read Young Entrepreneur Council’s snapshot of Jonathan Jackson and Dimagi in Business Insider here.

Favorite quote:

BI: What do you do during the first hour of your business day and why?
JJ: Respond to emails; we have a global company and I like to respond to our Africa and India offices before they leave for the day. I’ve very recently tried to start meditating in the morning as well, but that’s literally about three times ever.

Dimagi CEO speaks at World Economic Forum on Impact Investing

vraymond — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:26:28 +0000

Dimagi CEO Jonathan Jackson will be attending the World Economic Forum in Lima, Peru to speak on Social Entrepreneurship and impact investing. Jonathan and Vikram were both honored to receive the Schwab Foundation award for Social Entrepreneurship last year. Jonathan will speak about the degree of alignment between social mission and financial success as the test for determining when raising capital is a good idea.

Dimagi leads Change Seminar

vraymond — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:39:31 +0000

Please join us on Tuesday April 2nd for the first Change seminar of the spring quarter!

A number of mHeatlh projects have been piloted, but only a small subset of these have achieved any type of scale. There is a common, if unconscious, perception among many organizations that all you have to do is buy mobile phones in order to have a successful mHealth project. This often leads to insufficient capacity, unreasonable expectations, and ultimately failure. Dimagi, a developer of open source mobile-based tools for community health workers, has put substantial effort into developing a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model to help understand what resources are required for a successful project. Additionally, the Dimagi field team has developed strategies to encourage its partner organizations to build their capacity, plan appropriately, and take full ownership. This experience is being employed in India and several countries in Africa in order to help organizations understand what resources are required for a successful mHealth project.

Jeremy Wacksman, a Program Analyst with Dimagi will be presenting an overview of the TCO model Dimagi has developed, as well as some observations and reflections from a year of field work in India where he worked on several deployments of CommCare, a mobile phone-based, open source, case management and data collection tool for community health workers.

What: Jeremy Wacksman from Dimagi

When: Tuesday, April 2nd, 12-1pm

Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203

COO Carter Powers profiled on Dimagi’s business process

vraymond — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:32:36 +0000

The Cutter Consortium, in a case study titled “Agility and Discipline in Business Practice”, profiles Dimagi COO Carter Powers and his approach to efficiently doing business, maintaining a lean company with a high rate of impact, and tackling the problem of growth and scale.
Download the article here

Scaling Empathy on the Huffington Post

vraymond — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:24:22 +0000

The Huffington Post and the World Economic Forum both picked up Dimagi CEO Jonathan Jackson’s post on scaling empathy. Check it out on the Huffington Post here and on the World Economic Forum Blog here.

CommCare in Kenya

vraymond — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:22:25 +0000

Read here to see how CommCare is being used at the Jacaranda Health center in Kenya.