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Innovation & WorkVictor Miclovich
twitter: @miclovich
Web foundation workshop: Mobile/Tech communities in Africa (Uganda)
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Mobile communities and innovation
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Introduction
❖ I’m a software engineer @ AgileFarm, mspoti and storyspaces (3 different entities)
❖ I’m director of Tech @ The Kuyu Project
❖ I’m a researcher with MIT-EPROM’s program
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Economic/Social Development
❖ Good policies
❖ Superb investment
❖ Good governance
❖ Less corruption
❖ Lots of other things must be developed...
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Changing the world in a day
❖ Not interested in that...
❖ My interests are in... (tech)
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Beliefs that get us there...
❖ Two things
❖ A healthy population
❖ An educated population
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Results ❖ A wealthy population
❖ A prosperous nation(s)
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why??
❖ a healthy mind can improvise much better
❖ a healthy body means people will be happy
❖ a healthy body means people will be able to work (earn a living)
❖ a healthy body can do lots more... (lets not start to list the potential things it can do)
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Educated people?
❖ Ideally they should:
❖ create jobs (improvise)
❖ work at jobs
❖ THINK and get INNOVATIVE
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Does Africa have all this?
❖Yes❖ ...and... NO
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Can we change that?
YES
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Innovation (Tech-specific)
❖ A high number of graduates in CS/IT departments across Africa
❖ How many tech solutions have impacted lives positively and sustainably?
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Some things tech can change...
❖ Governance (thru’ e-/m-governance)
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When governance is good...
❖ We can spot this...
❖ And force governments to act...
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Business..
❖ Tech makes things quite easy...
❖ connecting prospective buyers (clients)
❖ Selling stuff online
❖ Crowdsourcing ideas
❖ And lots more
❖ Tax collection is faster (better economies are a result)
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Use case: How a government can encourage tech uses through innovation.
Tax collection...
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a prototype by AgileFarm
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Pay your Tax
❖ For every sale, most tax authorities levy a Tax (e.g. VAT, sales, etc.)
❖ This means a government can easily improve its revenue while giving a service (The Business Manager)
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Business manager
❖ Book keeping
❖ Tips to improve business
❖ Access to advertising channels (Google adwords, localized solution i.e. through radio stations, local newspapers, etc.)
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Others...
❖ Mobile web
❖ Mobile apps
Source: Tapworthy (Josh Clark, O’reilly)
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Technologies
❖ USSD (as simple as sending network messages)
❖ SMS
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Important...
❖ Design Apps that are localized.... :)
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Design systems
❖ Systems that people can use...
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❖ Can we improve health in a nation (or continent) with TECH?
❖ Yes
Health
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The Health Side of life...
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m-Health example
❖ pThor (monitoring pre- and ante- natal periods)
❖ RapidSMS (malnutrition surveys)
❖ Frontline:Medic
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pThor
Patient
Health service provider
Telco
Health ministry
pThor
Information flows freely
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Health system breakdown
Ministry of health
Regional/District health office
County-level office/administration
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Systems...
❖ They are complex and vary from country to country...
❖ Communication between sub-systems/components is important
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Results...
❖ This will guarantee transparency
❖ It will improve the skill-sets of personnel
❖ It will do lots of things... we’ve got to be innovative.
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Quick prototype...
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pThor
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Protocol
❖ Health ministries can use pThor to set up protocols or methodologies
❖ Call centers at health centers (very positive impact)
❖ .... lots of other stuff !!! :)
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Guided instructions: available by voice
source:Prototypes- AgileFarm
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about pThor
❖ Reminder systems
❖ Emergency response system for birth
❖ Follow up systems
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People
❖ Medics
❖ TBAs (traditional birth attendants)
❖ Many others that are involved in this ecosystem
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Technology
❖ SMS
❖ A web server (about 300GB, Linux, Kannel and django: ALL FREE)
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Education
❖ Web technologies:
❖ Innovative learning methods (Khan Academy, MIT OCW)
❖ Can Africa create and distribute knowledge from within (Knowledge banks)? (Yes... tech is relatively cheap to run this)
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The future...
❖ Lets leverage connections
❖ Lets leverage talent
❖ Lets be AWESOME...
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The End...
Victor Miclovichtwitter: @miclovich
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