Adele Waugaman, Mobilizing Development
When disaster strikes, mobile technology can play a critical role in both rescue and relief efforts. Mobile technology connects three times as many people as landlines.
The United Nations and Vodafone have joined forces to not only improve disaster response through mobile research & innovation, but also to improve global health.
Over £15M has been invested in one of the United Nations Foundations largest joint partnerships with the private sector. A result of this partnership, mHealth has replaced errorprone, paperbased recordkeeping and reduced delay in patient care. It has also led to improved clinical outcomes and reduced treatment costs, as well as served as an effective tool for data collection, record access, and the tracking of public health outbreaks and disease.
mHealth also educates. SMS alerts support public health and behav- ioral change campaigns. The more mobile technology integrates itself into developing countries, the farther they go. “Developing nations are the fastest-growing markets for cellular phones,” says Adele Waugaman, Senior Director of the Technology Partnerships for the United Nations Foundation. “Of the 5.3B mobile subscriptions in 2010, 3.5B were in these countries.”
Today’s mobile phones are more powerful than the computers used by NASA in 1969. Adele Waugaman
Senior Director, Technology Partnership United Nations Foundation
Adele Waugaman leads the £15 million Technology Partnership between the United Nations Foundation & Vodafone Foundation that leverages mobile technology programs to support and strengthen UN global health and disaster relief work.
The Parntership works to:
- strengthen communications in humanitarian emergencies though capacity building and support for disaster response missions that connect aid workers and the affected community;
- support the development of mobile health (mHealth) programs that tackle critical public health challenges by improving public health systems and decision-making; and
- promote research and innovation using technology as a tool for international development. More at www.unfoundation.org.
Adele Waugaman Interview
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