Information and communication technologies

October 9th 2018
Areas where ICTs are used
Education:
Flashnotes - Allows students to upload their lecture notes and sell them to other students who need more help or resources.
Lore - Allows document uploads, calendar sharing, and a grade book.
Study blue - App that allows students to organize their coursework, store notes and flashcards, and share it with other students.
Medicine:
Body scanners - Allows doctors to find and treat conditions in their early stages when the chances of treating them successfully are much greater.
Monitoring of patients - Several outputs from the computer system let hospital staff know the patients condition.
Organ transplant - Computerized databases used to help match patients who are waiting for organ transplants with suitable organs from donors
Commerce:
Village Pay Phone - Project that helps Bangladeshis without financial collateral to provide telecommunications services to their communities. They purchase mobile phones via lease, and pay for their investment by allowing villagers to make calls and send and receive messages.
Adesemi Communications International - Quality phone service in Tanzania. They have installed durable user-friendly units, capable of connecting local, long distance and international calls.
Red Cientifica Peruana - Located in Peru, completely self-sustaining, receiving no subsidies, governmental or otherwise.
Agriculture:
iFormBuilder - An iOS mobile data collection platform that features an application
that requires no paper or connection and is available worldwide. To register and distribute vouchers to beneficiaries during a seed fair, and able to save over a week of preliminary work and reduce staff by 50%.
Cropster:
Seeks to support sustainable agriculture by empowering farmers with access to key information and ensuring data transparency.
Episurevyor - A mobile app that lets users create an account, design forms, download them to their mobile phones, collect data and send it to a server
 
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