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Mobile Phones for Cows? Royal African Society 1 st September 2011 Nick Short Royal Veterinary College
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Mobile Phones for Cows?
Royal African Society1st September 2011
Nick Short Royal Veterinary College
Nick Short 2010
Animal Diseases
• Major impact on the poorest
• Increasing concern about emerging diseases
• Risk that diseases will infect humans
• Need to work at frontline for early detection
• Good field based surveillance is crucial
• Rapid and effective response is needed
Nick Short 2010
Mobile Technology
• Population of Kenya is about 40 million people
• Mobile subscribers increased from 11 million in 2007
to 25million in June 2011.
• Kenya has 10 million internet users, 98% served
through mobile operators as ISP.
• But less than five percent of people living in rural
areas use the Internet
Nick Short 2010
Mobile Geo-Mapping
• Geo-spatial tools allow accurate plotting
• Central data aggregation in the “Cloud”
• Off line facility and SD card storage
• Two way communication to build CoP
• Integration of different data types
Nick Short 2010
EpiCollect
Nick Short 2010
Mobile Data Surveillance
Nick Short 2010
Nick Short 2010
www.rvc.ac.uk/vetaidkenya
