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mHealth to Reduce Child Mortality in Burkina Faso

[Video] Children’s aid 2.0: can digital technology save lives in Burkina Faso? Project: Terre des hommes’ Integrated e-Diagnostic Approach programme (IedA) Purpose: Improve the clinical management of children under five in primary health settings. Industry: Health Location: Burkina Faso Partners: The four-year project is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and implemented on

July 5, 2017

What’s Ahead for Mobile Data Collection in Agriculture?

Q&A with Jack Hetherington, Research Program Coordinator at the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) Partner: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) Project: Mobile Acquired Data (MAD) evaluation Industry: Agriculture Location: Australia Overview:  In 2015 ACIAR conducted a study designed to determine the feasibility of using a single, off-the-shelf mobile data collection solution. The

June 15, 2017

Mobile Data Collection in Agriculture: RAID Hosts MAD Workshop

Project: Researchers in Agriculture for International Development (RAID) Hosted a Workshop on Mobile Acquired Data Apps Industry: Agriculture Location: Australia Purpose:  Train Australia-based researchers on how to use CommCare. This workshop brought together over 20 Australia-based researchers to the University of Melbourne to learn how to use CommCare for digital data collection in international agriculture research.   Researchers

March 27, 2017

Tablet-based Community Health Intervention with Integrated Fingerprint Scanning

Management of unique identity in any electronic medical record (EMR) system or other longitudinal tracking systems can be a significant challenge, particularly in low resource environments. In rural Nepal, this issue is made worse by similar names, the lack of a national identifier, and poor coverage of alternative systems such as addresses or phone numbers. Possible Health, our

December 7, 2016

Casa Flor Ixcaco: Using CommCare to Support Guatemalan Artisans

The blog post below is an interview ‎with Alana Marsili – a Management and Program Analyst at USAID. Alana ‎works with a small enterprise in Guatemala called Casa Flor Ixcaco, which is comprised of 20 indigenous female artisans. In this blog post, Alana chats with Dimagi about how Casa Flor Ixcaco is using CommCare as part of their day-to-day business

November 27, 2016

Cyclical Poo-power Programme Supported by Data Management

The Safi Sana team using CommCare on their handheld devices. In our most recent guest post, Safi Sana’s Head of Business Development Soren Bech talks about how his organization is using CommCare. Safi Sana creates lasting opportunities in developing countries by making business-driven, replicable programmes which combine sanitation, waste treatment, energy and agriculture. Safisana’s model consists of

November 27, 2016

Completing the Trifecta

The Partners in Health consultant team presenting their application to improve obstetric care in Chiapas Mexico. The following blog post was written by Dr. James Wolff, an Associate Professor of Global Health at Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH). For the past three years, Dr. Wolff has co-taught a course called “Improving Health Outcomes Using

August 3, 2016

From Mercy Corps: BUILT TO (IM)PROVE — Leveraging Realtime M&E

This article was published by John Skelton, former program manager at Mercy Corps.  Prospects is a youth empowerment portfolio implemented in Liberia by Mercy Corps and funded by the Swedish Embassy in Liberia and Chevron which seeks to equip young Liberians with the skills, information, and opportunities to find meaningful and sustainable employment or self-employment.

June 15, 2016

From Tostan: CommCare - A Custom Mobile Platform that is Changing the Face of Tostan’s Monitoring and Evaluation

This blog post was published by Tostan, and originally appeared on the Tostan Blog. Image credits: Tostan.  As we at Tostan continue to improve upon our monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system, we have had the opportunity to partner with Dimagi—a software social enterprise that develops technologies to improve service delivery in underserved communities—to create an

June 7, 2016

Touch Screens Touch Lives in Benin

  Evan Fowler is a Peace Corps volunteer based in Benin. In this piece, Fowler shares how in three months she transitioned from being a first-time smartphone owner to building an app to support Malaria prevention in Benin. Photos taken by Jake Meyers, Benin Peace Corps volunteer. As Peace Corps Volunteers, we have had our fair share

March 30, 2016

Boston University Launches Online mHealth Course on Dimagi Academy

In horse racing, to win the Trifecta a bettor has to select the first three finishers of a race in the correct order of finish. For mHealth practice-based teachers like us at Boston University School of Public Health, scoring a Trifecta meant developing a three-way partnership among NGOs working in resource-poor countries, a leading mHealth

March 17, 2016

From Peace Corps Senegal: Managing Stock Levels with SMS Solution Aids Fight Against Malaria

In the fight against malaria, Senegal has been a leader in West Africa in testing new strategies and implementing innovative solutions that has resulted in a mark decrease in malaria burden. However, one issue constantly plaguing the efforts of program administrators and critically restricting the positive potential of these programs has been the struggle to

January 25, 2016

From BRAC: How smartphones are revolutionizing data collection

This blog post was originally published by our partners at BRAC. The post highlights how BRAC has transitioned from paper-based data collection to mobile data collection with CommCare, and five reasons why going with mobile has been the right solution for BRAC. We use our smartphones for numerous quotidian purposes: taking photos, accessing social media,

November 19, 2015

From Mobility Outreach: Measuring Impact with mHealth Data

In today’s blog post, Carla Villoria, monitoring and evaluation officer at Mobility Outreach International talks about Mobility Outreach International’s mission and how her team is using CommCare to better track patient progress and measure success with the data collected. She also spills three tips for organizations interested in adopting mHealth solutions. What is Mobility Outreach

September 22, 2015

From PACT Myanmar: Three reasons why you can DIY with CommCare

Recently, I was in the field with Pact Myanmar’s monitoring and evaluation team doing a pre-assessment of women’s savings groups before we developed a survey tool. We found an unexpected outcome: although the program did teach literacy, many women said they felt empowered because they had learned to sign their names, which is required for

September 2, 2015

From a Dimagi Intern: How to Create Apps for Dummies

This post was written by Djinda Gueye, who interned for 6 months at Dimagi’s office in Dakar, Senegal.  Her original version, written in French, can be found below.       Every time I explain to someone new that I created mobile phone applications, I receive a very surprised response, whether that person is a

June 29, 2015

From Peace Corps Senegal: Fighting Malaria with a Cell Phone: There's an App for That

Since its inception in 2012, the active approach to community-based malaria management PECADOM+ (Prise en Charge á Domicile) has been scaled up and implemented in three districts of Senegal. The program will expand to districts in the Kolda region of Senegal this year, and is also being replicated in other African countries like Togo, Benin,

May 29, 2015

From USAID: Life in the Clouds—Boosting Haitian Health Care Through Technology

  This was originally published in the March/April online edition of USAID Frontlines Robin, a small rural Haitian community, is only one and a half hours outside of Port-au-Prince, but may as well be a world away. The usual congestion, chaos and dust that coats the capital city gives way to open vistas of greenery,

April 1, 2015

From Biometrac: With a Little Help From Our Friends: the Power of Working Together

The following blog post is by Trisha Finnegan, the Managing Director of Biometrac. In the following blog post, Ms. Finnegan recounts Biometrac’s experience working with Dimagi on a health project in Uganda.  We salute those who believe in the collective, the power of working together, harnessing our unique individual capabilities to go further than any

November 29, 2014

From FHI360: Mobile application strengthens Myanmar’s fight against MDR-TB

The following blog post was originally posted by Dimagi partner and CommCare user FHI360. You can see the original blog post here.  Community health workers on the front lines of Myanmar’s battle against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) now work more effectively and efficiently by using smartphones loaded with DOTsync, a powerful data collection and patient-tracking application. The application,

November 25, 2014

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