UN Plaza: PDAs for Public Health in Africa

Mark Leon Goldberg - June 16, 2008 - 6:48 pm

In this edition of UN Plaza, I chat with Dr. Joel Selaniko, co-founder of the non-profit Datadyne, which distributes mobile phones to public health workers in sub-Saharan Africa. Using special open-source software adapted for the mobile phones, health workers are able to keep track of vaccination campaigns and outbreaks in real time. Selanikio explains:

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