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Mobile Math Tests to Assess Quality of Educational Institutions

http://uwezo.net

We want to carry out assessment of education through standard 1-8. We want this to be accessible to all households. It’s a set of 5 questions to be sent via mobile -- SMS to administer or USSD. People submit the answers through the phone and they would need to be tagged, etc. and indicated as right or wrong. We’d be relying on the parents to administer the test to the children.

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Created by elanaberkowitz 18 weeks 4 days ago – Made popular 18 weeks 4 days ago
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Blood and Medicine requirement on Map with mobile and web interface.

http://ntglobal.org

The system will have a mobile and web interface for posting requirement of medicine and blood. The information posted will have technical information about the requirement, the location on map, the requirement time frame.

The information will be represented on the map for the public to view.
Authorized health workers and community leaders should be able to post to the system using sms in a given format.
Posting can also be done through smartphones where the location information will be more accurate and automatically added.

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Created by shervy 14 weeks 3 days ago – Made popular 13 weeks 6 days ago
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Open Portal for Teachers and Students in Tanzanian Secondary Schools

In Tanzania we have a good number of individuals (professional teachers or non-professionals) who have interests in assisting youths in academic matters. This portal will be a gateway bridging the gap between teachers and students regardless of their location or which schools they are located or teaching or studying.

This will be a place where some of the schools could take this as an opportunity to show the public that they have the best teachers by exposing them to students from any school to ask questions, guidance etc on relevant subjects

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Created by tilugulilwa 17 weeks 1 day ago – Made popular 17 weeks 1 day ago
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Help People in Kibera Find the Resources in Their Backyard through SMS

http://www.ketam.org

Map Kibera is already mapping assets of the slum community. People who live there should be able to query the MK database thru SMS and find out where to go for medical help and other needed services. Local service providers could then also register the phone #s that query so they can send out relevant info.

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Created by elanaberkowitz 18 weeks 4 days ago – Made popular 18 weeks 4 days ago
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Masawa - kicking poverty in the apps!

http://www.masawa.org

Imagine if those without smartphones could have all of the Apps4Africa apps in the palm of their hands plus all of the other apps that organizations and governments are developing! Masawa makes this possible. Masawa is a foldering system on java-enabled phones (2.5B in the world) that allows users all over the world to have a whole suite of applications at their disposal, like an app store for the poor. So instead of just having one health app in Malawi or one agriculture app in Niger, user can have them both plus much more.

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Created by joshuahaynes 16 weeks 1 day ago – Made popular 16 weeks 1 day ago
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