ICT Works: COVID-19 Reponse
ICTworks is the premier community for international development professionals committed to utilizing new and emerging technologies to magnify the intent of communities to accelerate their social and economic development. ICTworks focuses on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the implementation processes that can make them sustainable in rural and underserved communities across the developing world (ICT4D).
For COVID-19 pandemic, ICT works have developed a global list of solutions, and held an online workshop on COVID -19 Response.
ICTWorks have developed a global list of solutions to Global Digital Health Network – over 4,000 digital health practitioners – for their thoughts on which digital health solutions would be applicable for COVID response in LMICs and received multiple ideas that public health managers can use to mitigate this international communicable disease outbreak.
The responses mainly focused on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. These digital health solutions could be used to communicate how to avoid coronavirus infection, understand who might be infected with COVID-19, and track treatment protocols and adherance. They are in addition to artificial intelligence solutions for COVID containment we explored previously.
You can click here to visit the solutions page to see the full list of digital health solutions.
You can also click here to submit your own solution, and be part of the list.
The Global Digital Health Network, JSI, and IntraHealth International are organizing a COVID Response Workshop to understand the requirements and needs of health systems to respond to the novel coronavirus and which digital health solutions are available for government health systems in Lower and Middle Income countries (LMICs).
The online workshop included four Challenges Breakout Sessions where working groups discussed current Surveillance, Prevention. Diagnosis, and Treatment issues faced by health systems and develop uses cases faced by four different cadres of people: Client, Provider, Manager, Policy Maker.
Click here to find out more about the workshop.
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