Description of Session
Over 200 projects have been run globally in the last decade using Mobile Network Operator to answer health, agriculture, education and transportation questions to name just a few. Despite the myriad investments in this space, there has not been a consistent process that has been developed so that anyone (e.g. NGO, government) working in development can use these tools effectively each time in their programming. The Digital Impact Alliance has invested with partners (i.e., Cooper Smith, Path, Infosys, Flowminder, OPAL) to demonstrate in a few countries (e.g., Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania) how this can be a repeatable process. The panel will feature and in depth look at how this data has been used for global health in Malawi and will feature Cooper Smith, Infosys, MOH official and DIAL who will talk about this unique partnership and how other NGOs and countries can leverage this process to do the same thing in their country programs. Participants will offer a step by step view of the work they did to build in safeguards for citizen protection and build an on-going partnership that is now moving from the MOH to the National Statistics Office where they will take over data stewardship in 2020. A detailed paper on the work will be available in late July 2019. A video on the work is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=33&v=XB16i9p-XPs
