Mobile Phones for Cows?

Royal African Society1st September 2011

Nick Short Royal Veterinary College

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Animal Diseases

• Major impact on the poorest

• Increasing concern about emerging diseases

• Risk that diseases will infect humans

• Need to work at frontline for early detection

• Good field based surveillance is crucial

• Rapid and effective response is needed

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Mobile Technology

• Population of Kenya is about 40 million people

• Mobile subscribers increased from 11 million in 2007

to 25million in June 2011.

• Kenya has 10 million internet users, 98% served

through mobile operators as ISP.

• But less than five percent of people living in rural

areas use the Internet

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Mobile Geo-Mapping

• Geo-spatial tools allow accurate plotting

• Central data aggregation in the “Cloud”

• Off line facility and SD card storage

• Two way communication to build CoP

• Integration of different data types

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EpiCollect

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Mobile Data Surveillance

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