CommCare

 
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Region: 
Africa & Middle East
Country: 
Tanzania
Partners: 
D-Tree International;
Dimagi Inc.;
University of Washington;
Pathfinder International;
Activities: 

Th mobile-phone based application aims to assist community health workers in managing household visits and planing their day, while at the same time collecting and reporting data to monitor and evaluate community health programs. It was piloted in several projects in Tanzania and the target is to have 1,400 health workers using CommCare by 2014. In 2011, Dimagi launched a cloud-based, enterprise level platform to deploy CommCare globally.

Further reading: 

Dimagi Inc. 2011, CommCare HQ

Bogan, M. 2009, Improving Standards of Care with Mobile Applications in Tanzania, W3C Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social and Economic Development in Africa, 1 Apr. 2009, Mozambique

Dimagi Inc., CommCare Community Health Mobile Platform

[updated Dec. 2011]

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