You are invited to the:
CSE481K Designing Technology for Low-Resource Settings (the ICTD Capstone)
POSTER AND DEMO SESSION
Monday, June 9, noon-1:30 in the CSE Atrium
Each winter and spring, students design and prototype technology
solutions to problems motivated by issues encountered in low-resource
settings. This year four groups worked on projects related to vaccine
cold chain management:
*DashTricks: Tablet for District Manager - Tanzania *
DashTricks is an Android tablet application that provides district
immunization managers in Tanzania with a dashboard for monitoring the
performance of key immunization indicators in health facilities in their
districts. Our project aims to give district managers a sense of
ownership over their data to help them realize problems and make better
vaccine management decisions intuitively and correctly.
*IcePAK: Tablet for National Manager - Pakistan *
IcePAK is a mobile application focused on vaccine cold chain management
in Pakistan. It's goal is to integrate large amounts of data into easily
consumable forms, enabling decision makers and managers to allocate
resources effectively. High visibility of problem areas, and automated
allocation recommendations, allows these at risk locations to recognized
early and dealt with efficiently.
*More Practice: Training App for Laos *
We are developing a tablet-based training application that will be used
to train health workers in Laos. The initial purpose of the application
is to train workers on how to use an SMS-based vaccine stock reporting
system, but it will be used for other training in the future. Some of
the challenges this group has faced: designing for potentially
non-technical users, creating an extensible application for future
training needs, and simplifying the application update and
synchronization process.
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**SMS Immunization Manager **
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The SMS Immunization Manager (SIM) is an easy-to-install and
easy-to-customize system that allows community health workers to report
information about the vaccine cold chain (such as fridge temperature and
condition) by SMS rather than paper forms. SIM's main features include
robust SMS-based operations that correctly handle even poorly-formatted
messages and a moderation web application for administrators to review
the system's operation. The system will be deployed in Laos in the
coming months and possibly to other countries after.
Join us on Monday, June 9th, from noon - 1:30 in the CSE Atrium to get a
hands-on demo and discuss the projects with the students around their
posters.
Hope to see you all there on Monday.
Richard, Ruth, and Fahad
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