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We get to know your needs, gather the dream team of creatives, and produce elegant experiences that make a positive impact on health and happiness. We create boldly innovative services, products, brands, experiences, strategies, and business models.
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Using text messages to report medication inventory in Africa
via Bruce Nussbaum:
I keep discovering the most amazing social innovation work using social media being done by Parsons students. Check out this use of simple SMS technology, available in many African villages, to track medicine inventories at the local level.
One of the big problems in preventing and managing illness in Africa is the failure of governments to get medicines they have bought or received from outside agencies down to the village level. Sometimes the reason is simple inefficiency. Sometimes it is corruption. Villagers can complain but can’t prove they haven’t received what is promised. “Stock-outs” of medicines for malaria, TB, HIV and other diseases at local public health clinics is common.
In May of 2009, Oxfam and Health Action International (HAI) Africa convened 30 civil society organizations (CSOs) and policy-makers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to examine strategies for reducing stock-outs of medicines in Africa. Using Google Maps and SMS, the students were able to track 10 key medicines in four African countries.
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