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OppiaMobile and ORB for Health Worker Training

Alex Little

ICT4D London Meetup 26 Jan 2016

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Overview

● ORB – Repository of curated and openly licensed health worker training content

● OppiaMobile – Open source mobile learning platform

● Both have strong focus on openness and reuse/adaptation, using open source & creative commons licensing

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End-to-end process

Validated and

curated

Store, Curate and Share

Educational content created & adapted

Review Content Deploy

Training

Distribute

User centered design

systematically applied

Address demand

Activities

Outputs

Evaluate and iterate

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Rationale

● Principles for Digital Development

● Reduce costs/development time

● Evaluate based on the content – not the technology

● Common technologies and platforms to help sustainability – not project specific apps

● Single process enables Govt. ownership/oversight while accommodating varied/new technologies

● Richer learning content than can be delivered via SMS/IVR

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Implentations/Projects

● Ethiopia● Ghana● Nigeria● India● Pakistan● + more upcoming

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Results (so far)

● Ethiopia - high level of engagement from Health Extension Workers

● India – increased take up of family planning methods

● Pakistan – government buy-in for end to end process

● Ghana – Oppia app implemented and extended by local dev team

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Thanks!

● ORB: http://health-orb.org

● OppiaMobile: https://digital-campus.org/oppiamobile/overview

● End to End Process White Paper: http://bit.ly/1IzTUfq

● Creative Commons for Global Heath (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbqq6Gg5g3U

● Principles for Digital Development: http://digitalprinciples.org/

Contact: alex@digital-campus.org