mTika

To remove the barriers in achieving timely and high immunization coverage in rural Bangladesh

Project start date : 01/08/2013

Last updated : 16/03/2022

Beneficiary country : Bangladesh

Healthcare themes targeted

  • Vaccination

Fields of application

  • Information, education and communication for behaviour change (IEC)

Stage of development

  • Routine project/operational

Financing method

  • Public (grant/subsidies, call for proposals/call for tender, etc.)
  • NGO
  • Government agency (USAID, etc.)
  • Intergovernmental or international agency

Area where the project is utilised

  • Provincial/regional (in one region of a single country)

Economic model(s)

  • Income generated by beneficiaries
  • Other (please specify)

Target audience

  • Healthcare professionals and structures (hospitals, healthcare centres/clinics, health networks)
  • Pregnant women
  • Young children (0-5 years)

Project objectives

  • Decreased mortality
  • Reduced suffering

Materials used

  • Smartphone
  • Tablet

Technologies used

  • Mobile telecommunications (without data connection)
  • Internet
  • Geolocation
  • Mobile app (Android, iOS, Windows Phone, HTML5, etc.)

Offline use

Yes

Open source

Yes

Open data

Yes

Independent evaluation

Yes, evaluated independently

About the sponsor

mPower Social Enterprises Ltd.

mPower was founded in campuses of Harvard University and MIT in 2008 as ClickDiagnostics after winning the MIT 100K award and began its journey with an innovative telemedicine service that connected patients in remote areas in collaboration with Ministry of Health in Egypt in 2008. Following several tele-dermatology projects in USA, Guatemala and Botswana, ClickDiagnostics shifted its headquarters in 2010 to become mPower Social Enterprises. Since then, mPower had embarked on engaging in other domains such as Education, Water [&] Sanitation, Livelihood, Agriculture, etc. To date, mPower has partnered with more than 30 of the world’s leading development organizations across 15 countries to amplify the impact of development programs through innovative use of ICTs. Through the innovative solutions mPower has touched about 2.5 million beneficiaries’ lives through the development actors. Further, the solutions have been used by approximately 20,000 frontline workers. mPower has significant experience in the mHealth sector, specifically in working with Electronic Medical Records and Clinical Management System development in multiple projects within and beyond Bangladesh. We have scaled up national-level deployments with the government and large NGOs like BRAC and are in long-term collaboration with the WHO and UNICEF to implement community health-worker solution called OpenSRP in large-scale government projects. mPower is implementing ICT solutions for several USAID-funded health projects in Bangladesh, including JiVitA, Challenge TB, A2H and Nobo Jatra allowing us a unique position to cross-pollinate and enable synergies across projects. Furthermore, mPower has extensive experience developing ICT-based solutions for and training government field workers as well as NGO community health-workers and hospital management staff across the country.
mPower’s ambition is to become one of the premier innovators in designing ICT solutions to solve tough development challenges, and also to be a prime incubator of social enterprises that develop and sustain profitable ICT-based services for the disadvantaged population.

Sector : Industrial (Startups, enterprises, etc.)

Country of origin :

Contact : Sponsor website Project website

Partners

  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

    Institutions (Communities, public authorities, NGOs, foundations, etc.)

  • Government of Bangladesh

    Academic entities (Universities, research laboratories, etc)

  • Icddr

    Academic entities (Universities, research laboratories, etc)

  • b

  • John Hopkins University