I’d just like to add that all other humanitarian work would become easier if there were better network coverage and access to smartphones. In my work with AMF, we put a strong emphasis on electronic collection of mosquito net campaign data, and we often work around problems related to network coverage / device availability / …
To give a concrete example, this year’s mosquito net campaign in Guinea has faced delays because it was difficult to obtain the several thousand tablets needed for electronic data collection, and because the system did not work well in areas with no network coverage.
Very interesting read!
I’d just like to add that all other humanitarian work would become easier if there were better network coverage and access to smartphones. In my work with AMF, we put a strong emphasis on electronic collection of mosquito net campaign data, and we often work around problems related to network coverage / device availability / …
To give a concrete example, this year’s mosquito net campaign in Guinea has faced delays because it was difficult to obtain the several thousand tablets needed for electronic data collection, and because the system did not work well in areas with no network coverage.
Oh, that’s really interesting. I’ve passed this along to the team.