MBPT rollout @m2m
Monday was the big day for the mother baby pair tracking project where we rolled out 20 smartphones to five sites around South Africa in one of the poorest townships in the country called Khayelitsha.…
Transitioning to Cap Haitien, Haiti – Meds & Food for Kids
Haiti has a special way of making a week feel like a month and perceiving progress happening in reverse. Trying to describe Haiti to someone that has never been here is a real challenge. Words…
mHealth kick off @ m2m
This week I started the user acceptance training (UAT) for one of the largest rollouts of mHealth to date at mothers2mothers. The system will capture information through a smart phone and record all the data…
Stories from an iCats fellow in Nicaragua: how to build more resilient communities in flood prone areas
Dear future applicant to the 2013 iCats fellowship program, If you are reading this blog you might be asking yourself whether it is worth to make a “pause” in you business career and put your…
Creating Impact: Alone or Together?
“Treading heavily on each other’s toes, bickering violently amongst themselves and competing in sometimes unseemly ways for ascendancy…” – Graham Hancock, Lords of Poverty In last few months of the fellowship, I have had chances to…
Back in the classroom again in Southeast Asia
Three months into my iCats Fellowship, I can say: “congratulations to myself for resigning from my traditional banking job in London and taking the step to enter the classroom of impact investing in Manila!” I…
Not My Typical Sunday
The power of the iCats fellowship hit me right away. My first assignment – literally – was to conduct site visits with members of the streetfootballworld network in Nairobi, Kenya. I spent a Sunday afternoon…
mHealth @ m2m
mHealth is defined as “Mobile eHealth or mHealth broadly encompasses the use of mobile telecommunication and multimedia technologies as they are integrated within increasingly mobile and wireless health care delivery systems.The field broadly encompasses the…
From the Slums in Delhi to the Villages in Takeo: How Operation ASHA Scaled Up Across the Borders
The article is first in ‘Social Enterprise Replication’ series for Center for Health Market Innovations. Original post appeared here. Imagine a village of 1000 people who don’t have the access to private clinic or a proper…
Is your NGO on life support?
The blogosphere is filled with numerous articles of how to create a successful non-government (NGO) organisation but what is missing is a review of the most common death traps. In other words how to kill…
Floating Tuberculosis Centers – A Step Deeper in Mobile Healthcare Delivery by Adapting to Local Conditions (Part I)
Author’s Note: This is the first post in series of two blog posts on floating centers of OpASHA in Cambodia Long ago, Cambodia was under water, except for a small island with a tree on…