For the first time in years, John Phiri*, a health extension worker in Malawi’s central Salima district, does not have to fill in a stack of forms during his monthly round of collecting data to monitor nutrition levels in the community. Now he whips out his mobile phone and texts the data, including the...
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mHealth (also written as m-health or sometimes mobile health) is a recent term for medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, PDAs, and other wireless devices. mHealth applications include the use of mobile devices in collecting community and clinical health data, delivery of healthcare information...
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Image via Wikipedia Extract from “The Africa Competitiveness Report 2007″ As African governments seek to liberalise their economies and integrate them more closely into the global economy, their industrial performance increasingly depends on the competitiveness of the firms serving their markets (both local and foreign-owned). Firm-level competitiveness will define the ability of African economies...
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Geneva, 23 February 2010 — Prices for information and communication technology (ICT) services are falling worldwide, yet broadband Internet remains outside the reach of many in poor countries, ITU says in its Measuring the Information Society 2010 report released today. The report features the latest ICT Development Index (IDI), which ranks 159 countries according...
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Image via Wikipedia Reverse logistics stands for all operations related to the reuse of products and materials. It is “the process of planning, implementing, and controlling the efficient, cost effective flow of raw materials, in-process inventory, finished goods and related information from the point of consumption to the point of origin for the purpose...
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Smallholder farmers who feed much of the world today and are key to future global food security remain neglected by aid and policies NAIROBI (11 February 2010)—A new paper published today in Science warns that billions of dollars promised to fund programs to boost small-scale agriculture in developing countries are unlikely to succeed in...
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The looming threats of global climate change and population growth call for sweeping changes in how the world produces its food and fiber, warns a group of prestigious scientists, including an expert in plant genetics at the University of California, Davis. The research team, led by Nina Federoff, science and technology adviser to Secretary...
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