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Employing UNICEF Open Source Software Tools in mHealth Projects in Nicaragua

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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is a UN organization whose charter is to protect and improve the lives of children around the world. Maternal and child health are health-related areas where UNICEF has developed innovative Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions in the general domain of mHealth in which text messages have been used to address particular health issues. We have used two UNICEF open source software packages, Rapid SMS and Rapid Pro, in tele-health projects in Nicaragua. In this paper we describe the implementation of these projects and the relative advantages/disadvantages of using these two software tools in implementing our solutions.

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  1. Singh, P., Kulkarni, S., Keech, E., McDermott-Levy, R., Klingler, J.: Progress on making healthcare more accessible to rural communities in Waslala, Nicaragua, using low-cost telecommunications. In: IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, Seattle, WA, October 30–November 1, 2011 (2011)

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Acknowledgements

The author wishes to thank Peter Shaw and Melvin Mendoza for software development and Dr. Rafael Amador of UNICEF Nicaragua for guidance in developing the application for Laguna de Perlas and El Bluff.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, USA

    Pritpal Singh

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  1. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain

    Carmelo R. García

  2. Departamento de Estadistica, Universidad La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain

    Pino Caballero-Gil

  3. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA

    Mike Burmester

  4. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain

    Alexis Quesada-Arencibia

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Singh, P. (2016). Employing UNICEF Open Source Software Tools in mHealth Projects in Nicaragua. In: García, C., Caballero-Gil, P., Burmester, M., Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. UCAmI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10069. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48746-5_29

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