Tag: Health
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Our first MoTeCH Community Health Worker System Workshop
Read moreAliya Walji is Technical Program Manager, MoTeCH, at Grameen Foundation Ghana.
In December we had our first workshop to introduce and test our mobile phone technology for MoTeCH to community health workers (CHWs) in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Prior to this workshop, much of our field research and testing has focused on building content for our “Pregnant Parents” application, but today we were focused on how MoTeCH can help practitioners deliver high quality antenatal and neonatal health care.
Our goals for the workshop were to learn as much about the...
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Lessons About Pregnancy and Motherhood Via Songs on a Mobile Phone?
Read moreJessica Osborne is Program Officer, MoTeCH, at Grameen Foundation Ghana.
As a part of our MoTeCH initiative, we are holding content workshops to learn more about what types of information local women want and need in relation to their health. In Accra, Ghana, Eve’s Pregnancy School has offered lessons about pregnancy and motherhood to women for over 10 years, and has seen over 2,000 mothers through safe pregnancy and delivery. The founder, Florence, gives bi-monthly classes to pregnant women and mothers; she attended our first content workshop recently and...
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Rapid Prototyping Goes “Up Country” with MoTeCH
Read moreKirsten Gagnaire is Project Manager, MoTech, Grameen Foundation Ghana.
Since the beginning, the Mobile Technology for Community Health (MoTech) team has been focusing on using rapid prototyping for figuring out what will – and won’t – work in the rural environment. A week ago, the team headed to the poorest region in Ghana – the Upper East (UER) – to set up a series of exercises to determine whether pregnant mothers would be interested in asking questions about their pregnancy and newborn care via mobile phones. We were wanted to understand what types of...
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Grameen Foundation´s ICT Innovation Program – Approach and Philosophy
Read moreDavid Edelstein is Director, ICT Innovation, at Grameen Foundation DC
We officially launched our Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Program two years ago, when we began our Application Laboratory (AppLab) efforts in Uganda. This initiative, in collaboration with the mobile operator MTN and Google, built on the successful Grameen Foundation/MTN Village Phone Program. With over 10,000 Village Phone Operators, this served as a unique testing ground for developing applications and information services tailored to the needs of the poor. Over nearly...
