Tag archives for Mobile Technology

Using Mobile Phones to Alert Households Waiting for ‘NextDrop’ of Water

Posted by Anh-Thi Le on Monday, May 2nd 2016

Emily Kumpel, representing the NextDrop team, accepts an award in 2011 to scale up the team’s pilot study in Hubli-Dharwad. / Big Ideas Contest

Unreliable water supply is a serious impediment to health and economic development. Across the globe, 400 million people rely on unreliable water systems, and 250 million of them live in India. Learn how one organization is working to help.

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Empowering Voters One Mobile Phone at a Time

Posted by Jean-Marc Gorelick on Monday, September 14th 2015

Access to the internet is increasing rapidly across Cambodia and outpacing the research on total users, especially for young people using free wi-fi available at many locations across the nation’s capital. / Chandy Mao, USAID

Around the world, USAID is leveraging increasingly affordable technologies to improve access to information for citizens even in the most repressive countries, helping create space for civil society to develop.

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The Digital Development Opportunity

Posted by Dr. Rajiv Shah on Monday, October 20th 2014

Bangladeshi farmer Jalal Kha talks over a mobile phone as he works in his paddy field. / AFP, Farjana K. Godhuly

New technologies have created unprecedented opportunities to end extreme poverty. USAID is proud to endorse a set of guidelines on digital development, the Greentree Principles, to help ensure we’re effectively harnessing digital technology to transform lives.

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Texts Connect Midwives to Mothers in Timor-Leste

Posted by Mary Anne Mercer, Senior Maternal and Child Health Advisor, Health Alliance International on Wednesday, April 2nd 2014

Amalia Martins Calapes is a new mother in Same, the capital of Manufahi District. Project SMS messages have encouraged her to visit her midwife regularly. Credit: Marisa Harrison, HAI

In Timor-Leste, progress against maternal deaths has been slow. USAID’s “Mobile Moms” project is using mobile phones to connect expectant mothers with with trained midwives.

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FrontLines: Energy/Infrastructure

Posted by Angela Rucker, FrontLines on Wednesday, February 26th 2014

FrontLines January/February 2014: Energy / Infrastructure

Read the latest edition of USAID’s FrontLines to see how the Agency invests in energy and infrastructure projects around the world.

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Empowering Moms Through mHealth

Posted by Sharon D'Agostino, Vice President, Corporate Citizenship at Johnson and Johnson on Monday, December 30th 2013

The Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA) partnership is based on the power and promise of mobile phones in empowering mothers to make healthy decisions for themselves and their babies.

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