PC World Mobile Stockouts

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Ken Banks writes for PC World/IDG News Service about the “Stop Stock-Outs” campaign, in which activists in Kenya, Uganda, Malawi and Zambia used structured SMS reports — processed through his FrontlineSMS software and mapped on the crowdsourcing platform Ushahidi — to document and publicise chronic shortages of essential medicines such as antiretrovirals and anti-malarials at local clinics.

Region

Africa

Category

Health

Organisation / Author

Ken Banks

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