App/Software

Seth Kalichman of the University of Connecticut in the U.S. will establish an internet-based global monitoring and rapid alert system for finding, analyzing, and counteracting misinformation communication campaigns regarding vaccines to support global immunization efforts.

Alain Labrique of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the U.S. will develop and field test in rural Bangladesh a cloud-based mobile phone system that will allow for universal access to vaccination records, send vaccine reminders and messaging, and provide incentives to parents and health care workers via a phone application. This new strategy could increase the reach, coverage, and public acceptance of immunization.

Ndadilnasiya Endie Waziri of the the African Field Epidemiology Network in Nigeria will determine whether combining child and animal vaccination programs can reduce the incidence of vaccine preventable diseases in Nigeria. Current programs often fail to reach highly mobile rural communities who raise livestock. This dependency on livestock may make them more agreeable to vaccination programs that offer protection for both their animals and themselves, which would also optimize the use of limited health care resources.

Marianne Gybels of the 1% CLUB in the Netherlands will develop simple reporting tools for mobile devices that allow people to post stories and data on grassroots aid projects, allow aid users and the local community to comment on the impact of the projects, and connect a global audience to these projects. The tool will be field- tested in Kenya with a focus on 50 healthcare projects.

Jennifer Moslemi and a team at Habitat Seven in the U.S. will create an interactive children's e-book series for tablet devices that tells personal stories of children whose lives have been touched by aid efforts. Their goal is to cultivate meaningful dialogue within families to spread the message that aid is working.

Michael Harrison of Deep International Ltd. in Cyprus will develop an online tool that connects children in the developed world with children from developing countries who share their birthday and have benefited from foreign aid. The database of children that have received aid will be filled by aid workers who can promote their agencies' missions and operations, and accessed by kids globally via a child-friendly interactive social site where they can learn more about their "twins" and how their lives were changed by foreign aid.

Andre Proctor of Keystone Accountability in the United Kingdom will develop a system to collect and organize feedback directly from farmers to support African agricultural development decisions. They will design affordable mobile data collection methods to gather feedback using verbal and written surveys. This will be coupled with a modified open web-based processing system to generate accurate and quantifiable performance data on agricultural programs and technologies for use by African agriculture development institutions.

Daniel Shaw and a team at Wieden+Kennedy New York in the U.S. will develop a digital platform that collects real-time data from devices that measure human activity as it relates to aid - for example the number of times a clean water pump is used or how many vaccine needles are used in an immunization campaign. The project will field-test sensor devices for their ability to track physical action, and a platform will be built to integrate the field data with content that tells the stories of foreign aid progress.

Charlotte Obidairo and team from Coxswain Social Investment plus (CSI+) of Tunisia will develop an open digital platform that uses crowdsourcing to solicit or offer solutions to development challenges from young people around the world. They will repurpose digital platforms such as Facebook and YouTube to present inspiring community-based success stories in multimedia format.

Eric King and colleagues from Leo Burnett in the U.S. will create a working stock ticker on the New York Stock Exchange that will track the daily performance of aid to publicize that investment in humankind (HMKD; i.e. aid) is working. They will work to list HMKD on the New York Stock Exchange and create a news site containing daily updates of activities, such as where new wells have been dug. They will also present data on the type and distribution of aid, and on the return, such as changes in literacy rates and disease control.