Our work on apps with a humanitarian touch was recently featured on NPR's All Things Considered. The story titled, More than just Angry Birds, apps can have a humanitarian side too, focuses on developers who are merging their human rights work with their interest in creating smartphone apps.
As Yaw, Nafundi's CEO, describes in the interview he gave, our approach to building software is simple. We believe that real solutions come only after spending time iterating with users wherever they are. That belief has been at the heart of our ODK work, and continues to be at the heart of the work we do for our clients.
The storied aired nationally, but if you missed it, you can listen to it here.
In early 2018, polio virus was detected in the sewers of Mogadishu, Somalia and the government moved quickly to vaccinate the country's children in order to prevent a potential outbreak. A vaccination campaign targeting more than 726,000 children was launched in the Banadir and Lower and Middle Shabelle regions. The campaign was carried out by some 3,500 staffers and Nafundi assisted by enabling real-time tracking of vaccination coverage using ODK. Read more.
Fayaz Jatoi is the Coordinator of the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) for Polio Eradication in Sindh, Pakistan. In this guest post, Fayaz describes why AFP surveillance is critical to polio eradication and how an SMS-based reporting system for private care provider helps. Read more.
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