Technology for Development
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Simple tools that actually ship and who uses them matter. Frontline SMS is a desktop app that plugs into a phone to send mass SMS and powers Ushahiti style crowd maps and a Haiti response. Rapid FTR collects photos on Android to reunify children in Uganda. MEO S X manages microfinance portfolios. Motech runs SMS and robocall reminders for Ghana’s mobile midwife. OpenMRS forms a national shared record in Rwanda tied to universal insurance that coincides with a 50% reduction in maternal mortality.
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