Wednesday, November 21, 2007

ChangeMakers Seems to be Really Interesting

ChangeMakers.Net
Changemakers focuses on social innovation. It describes solutions and resources needed to help people become changemakers and presents stories that explore the fundamental principles of successful social innovation around the world. Changemakers is building an online "open source" community that competes to surface the best social solutions, and then collaborates to refine, enrich, and implement those solutions. The online Changemakers's community identifies and selects the solutions and helps refine them. Changemakers's Idea Reviewers are regular contributors of commentary and analysis that ensure lively and rich online discussion. It is an initiative of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public.
Here is an example of one of their competitions:

Disruptive Innovations in Health and Health Care: Solutions People Want
Changemakers, in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, held a collaborative competition for the best disruptive innovations that transform health and health care in the U.S. and globally. The winners and finalists are described in case studies on this website.
One of their case studies especially interested me.

Mobile Technology To Improve Health Service Delivery Within Government
The Dokoza system is an interactive real-time mobile system for fast-tracking & improving critical services. The system has been developed in SA for use initially in HIV/AIDS (specifically in respect of the roll-out of anti-retroviral therapy) and TB treatment,with the view to including other diseases.The system involves the use of SMS& cell phone technology for information management, transactional exchange & personal communication.The cell phone makes use of a regular issue SIM card across any existing cell phone network. by Jessie Dias-Alf | June 6, 2007.

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