Digital Zakat, a joint venture of Dhiraagu, a telecommunications provider in the Maldives and the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, facilitates the payment of zakat through a mobile phone. Zakat is the practice of charitable giving by Muslims based on accumulated wealth. It is very convenient even for someone who does not understand English since the service is based on numbers seen from the USSD menu. It is an excellent model for developing countries and small island nations with limited banking services to reach the masses using mobile technology.
The main objective of this ICT application conceptualized by the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department is to develop a system which aids in the organized monitoring of forests and wildlife, along with providing a repository for the collection, aggregation and storage of MIS and geo – spatial data through a computer based communication network. It is executing its technology initiatives in an integrated manner where all its key functions are being carried out through web based workflows. This application also works on a GPS enabled, touch screen and Windows based mobile.
Aarogyam, a project begun in the state of Uttar Pradesh, is India's first end to end community based digital health mapping. Through this the citizens anywhere in India on any existing telecom network can access information with respect to their health profile. It is definitely a unique technological innovation aimed at improving the health of the common man. This has led to increased accountability of service providers, transparency and participation of the stakeholder. It has also provided a specific health database for future health care strategy.
Students Health Information Tracking System was developed to fill in the gap witnessed in dissemination of information concerning students’ health. Aimed at providing better monitoring mechanism of the health of the school children, in increasing transparency and reviewing of the hygiene environment maintained at these residential institutes. The application is developed keeping in view of the scalability to any extent depending on the needs of the client department. The same application can be extended to all such institutions, where the health monitoring in a residential system is very much needed.
Jaroka tele-healthcare is an effort to provide healthcare to the underprivileged in the far flung areas of Pakistan. Using the service a community health worker can register a patient, report his/her symptoms, acquire diagnosis and even get trained. It is an SMS-based service and can be used in any place where mobile network is available. Its primary objective is to provide immediate, sustainable, and affordable medical care to the needy in best possible way.
AIIMS initiated this project to streamline the process of hospital visits and minimize wait times for patients by using m-governance. A secondary objective was to improve transparency and accountability in the OPD’s. JPN Apex Trauma Centre has uniquely leveraged the existing technologies to provide innovative services in the area. Following this initiative, patients no longer have to queue for appointments with doctors or stand in line for registration and can take appointments from the comfort of their homes.
Voice-ERP is an interactive Voice based application targeted for manufacturing, retail and contract farming organizations. Contract farming organizations face a challenge of maintaining communication with their farmers. It aims to bring down the cost of such activities by leveraging mobile phones. Voice-ERP has created a unique proposition by using mobile phones as the channel and local language voice based communication to-and-fro the ERP systems.
Business Express in Bangladesh is a new process which includes the automatic reporting of sales force, including customer orders and credit collection. The system has been made into a platform for all stakeholders related to Sales Information to provide and update relevant information from their respective points of authority. By using this system any company management can collect all the sales related information within few seconds. This system thus, aims to decrease the sales force maintenance cost.
The mobiquity platform embraces the mobile phone as a convenient, cash-free, and card-free payment and transaction medium, delivering a range of financial and payment applications. Designed to make everyday tasks easier to perform for banked subscribers, mobiquity extends formal financial services to the unbanked community. It boosts development impact of remittances through an innovative method to improve inflows via mainstream channels where it can be tracked and converted into credit that will fuel the economy.
WorldGSM is changing the DNA of rural telecom by providing viable new building blocks that will change the way rural networks are built. It is the first viable GSM system that is independent of the power grid. It runs exclusively on solar power and requires no diesel generator backup. It is designed for simple delivery and deployment by local, untrained workers – all resulting in near zero maintenance. This solution aims to make wireless telecom viable for the next billion customers in the most remote rural areas of our planet.
