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Malawi: Healthworkers use of Frontline SMS

Monday, July 28th, 2008 @ 07:02 UTC

by Elia Varela Serra

Countries:: Malawi
Topics:: Ideas, Cyber-Activism, Health, Software & Tools, Technology
Languages:: English

Kiwanja describes some of the initiatives that are using the software Frontline SMS (an collective SMS service for NGOs), such as Josh Nesbit in Malawi who's using it “to drive field communications between a local hospital and its six hundred roaming community health workers (CHWs)”.

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