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Achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015

Posted by Jackline Oluoch  |  Mar 3, 2010 | 4 Comments
Health • Millennium Villages Project

The MVP introduces enhanced mobile technology to reduce child and maternal mortality

Children and mothers across the Millennium Villages (MV) will benefit from a new health application based on mobile phone technology that will be used at the household level in all sites. The technology was presented to community health teams at a continent-wide workshop held in Nairobi in February 2010. The ChildCount+ application utilizes mobile phone technology to enhance maternal care and care for children under 5 . . . [more]

Posted by Bala Yusuf Yunusa  |  Jun 3, 2009 | 0 Comments
Infrastructure • Pampaida, Nigeria

Launch of a New Base Station for Mobile Communications in Pampaida

On Thursday, May 21, 2009, the Pampaida Millennium Village celebrated the launch of a new base station that will provide mobile communications to this rural Nigerian community. The installation was made possible by a partnership with Ericsson, a leading telecom supplier, and Zain, a leading mobile operator in the Middle East and Africa. The new technology will help to improve agricultural production in Pampaida – a foundation of . . . [more]

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