Please RSVP: How Are Community Health Workers Using ICT?

February 5, 2014 Editor 0

Across the continent, Africans are receiving health care by frontline health workers in every situation imaginable, from modern hospitals to primary care facilities and health posts in rural villages. In most of these situations, there will probably be a mobile phone. There may even be more than that. Baobab Health uses point of care terminals in Malawi and Dimagi is growing the number of CHWs with phones for data capture in Kenya.

Yet in community settings, frontline health workers are likely to have more basic tools. Constrained by ICT infrastructure, costs, and access, and by national and local rules, regulations, and custom, they often just have mobile phones – feature phones at that. So what ICT tools can they use?

Please RSVP now to join Lesley-Anne Long of mPowering Frontline Health Workers and Trip Allport of Accenture Development Partnerships in a vibrant discussion during the next Tech Salon Nairobi to find answers to questions like:

• What are the basic tools that /any/ community health worker could use (and how) to improve health service delivery and quality of care?
• What are more advanced tools that are available?
• What has scaled? What has not? And for both, why?
• Who is innovating and what is their progress?
• How can we help develop or deploy solutions that will have impact on frontline health workers and the communities they serve?

We’ll have hot coffee and catered breakfast for a morning rush, but seating is limited. So RSVP ASAP to be confirmed for attendance: once we reach our 30-person capacity there will be a waiting list.

About the Technology Salon

The Technology Salon™ is an intimate, informal, and in person, discussion between information and communication technology experts and international development professionals, with a focus on both:

• technology’s impact on donor-sponsored technical assistance delivery, and
• private enterprise driven economic development, facilitated by technology.

Our meetings are lively conversations, not boring presentations. Attendance is capped at 30 people – and frank participation with ideas, opinions, and predictions is actively encouraged. It’s also a great opportunity to meet others motivated to employ technology to solve vexing development problems. Join us today!

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Categories: ICT

Tags: Community health worker, Health informatics, nairobi