“The mobile phone can be handy in tracking outbreaks of communicable diseases in rural areas, according to pilot studies carried out by a global consortium in Sri Lanka and India’s Tamil Nadu state.
The consortium of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Carnegie Mellon University’s Auton Lab, LIRNEasia, University of Alberta, Respere Lanka, Lanka Jathika Sarvodhaya Society and the International Development Research Centre leverages the mobile phone’s communicating and computing capabilities.”
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SciDev.net, 21 September 2010
