“In the battle to provide reliable health services to millions of rural poor worldwide, the cellular phone has quickly emerged as the most powerful weapon.
In Malawi, a country with two doctors for every 100,000 residents, and where more than one in five children is underweight, the national government partnered with UNICEF to track juvenile malnutrition in real time, with mobile phones and an open source platform called RapidSMS.”
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Chikodi Chima, Allvoices, 29 December 2009
