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How Mobile Phones Are Saving Lives in the Developing World

AFP Blog

How Mobile Phones Are Saving Lives in the Developing World : "In six months, our pilot in Malawi saved the clinical staff 1,200 hours of follow-up time and more than $3,000 in motorbike fuel,” Nesbit says. FrontlineSMS:Medic is now known as Medic Mobile and runs off open-source data from OpenMRS, Ushahidi, Google Apps and HealthMap.".

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. million patients in Malawi and Uganda, they've seen that text messages and cheap mobile phones are great tools on the front-lines of global health.

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