Highlighted project: open source Health Guides
Building upon the 30 year history of "Where There is No Doctor", the Hesperian Foundation is creating a set of open copyright digital Health Guides where individuals and community health workers can get practical, reliable information about how to care for themselves and their families in a format that they can understand and use. UnaMesa served as the technical advisor for this effort.
Highlighted Social Enterprise: Connecting families through Apps
Using Kindoma's iPad app grandparents can read and share favorite stories with young children whether they live across town or across the world. Instead of replacing family time with screen time, Kindoma's approach uses mobile technology to enhance and strengthen family connections with practices such as dialogic reading that have been shown to have a strong, positive impact on social, emotional, and cognitive learning.
Recent News
March 2013
The Safe Pregnancy and Birth app, a winner in the Ashoka Changemakers She Will Innovate competition, is now available in Spanish. The only comprehensive, open source app on pregnancy and birth developed specifically for low-resource settings and available for both iOS and Android devices.
