Paper Info
Title
ICTD for healthcare in Ghana: two parallel case studies
Abstract
This paper examines two parallel case studies to promote remote medical consultation in Ghana. These projects, initiated independently by different researchers in different organizations, both deployed ICT solutions in the same medical community in the same year. The Ghana Consultation Network currently has over 125 users running a Web-based application over a delay-tolerant network of servers. OneTouch MedicareLine is currently providing 1700 doctors in Ghana with free mobile phone calls and text messages to other members of the medical community. We present the consequences of (1) the institutional context and identity of the investigators, as well as specific decisions made with respect to (2) partnerships formed, (3) perceptions of technological infrastructure, and (4) high-level design decisions. In concluding, we discuss lessons learned and high-level implications for future ICTD research agendas.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426714
information and communication technologies and development
Keywords
DocType
Volume
web based applications,indexing terms,public health,delay tolerant network
Conference
abs/0905.0203
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
Proc. IEEE/ACM Conf. on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Doha, Qatar, Apr. 2009, 118-128. IEEE CS Press
8
0.72
References 
Authors
13
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rowena Luk1393.48
Matei Zaharia29101407.89
Melissa Ho326126.25
Brian Levine4171.71
Paul M. Aoki51194264.37