Designing an architecture for delivering mobile information services to the rural developing world
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Reliable data collection in highly disconnected environments using mobile phones
Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Networked systems for developing regions
Evaluating the accuracy of data collection on mobile phones: a study of forms, sms, and voice
ICTD'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development
Speech vs. touch-tone: telephony interfaces for information access by low literate users
ICTD'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development
A new generation of open source data collection tools
ICTD'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development
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Although para-social workers (PSW) carry the primary responsibility in providing essential services to the growing population of orphans and vulnerable children in Tanzania, they are often not paid for this work. Moreover, PSWs are unable to access governmental resources due to the lack of an efficient means of reporting their needs to relevant government officials in a timely manner. In this paper we describe a text message (SMS) based solution that harnesses the prevalence of mobile phones coupled with several Open Source tools to empower PSWs. Specifically, we build a more efficient mechanism for reporting summary data on orphans and vulnerable children to relevant government officials in a cost-effective and efficient manner. This paper reports on our needs assessment process, reviews the related work, describes the implementation and testing of our prototype solution, and concludes with a discussion of relevant future work.