Information and communication play a major role in improving health, safety and wellbeing – all critical components of a sustainable world. By enabling effective knowledge sharing and remote access to real-time information, mobile technology can have a positive impact in a range of areas – from pregnancy and maternal health to childcare and disease prevention.
Nokia Data Gathering
On a wider scale, mobile applications such as Nokia Data Gathering can help organisations effectively collect field data such as information on disease outbreaks.
The Amazonas State Health Department in Brazil was the first to use the solution as part of its fight against dengue fever in the city of Manaus in Northern Brazil. It has since been used by over 150 organisations globally in fields such as birth registration, agricultural production monitoring, water surveys and more.
An open source software, Nokia Data Gathering is available to everybody free of charge. It can be used to create tailored questionnaires and distribute them to multiple mobile phones using a normal mobile network. Field personnel surveying local conditions can quickly complete the questionnaires and immediately transmit their findings to a central database. The system also allows organisations to geo-tag data with GPS location information to build a more detailed picture of very local conditions.
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Surveying dengue fever in the Amazon
See how Nokia Data Gathering is helping in the fight against dengue fever.
Surveying dengue fever in the Amazon
