Tag Archives: mobile phones
Libraries on chips! – for tablets and mobile phones
WiderNet (creators of eGranary on hard drives) are seeking crowd-funding to produce new information resources on chips that can be placed in mobile devices – dubbed the Pocket eGranary Library. The focus will be on topics such as: language, literacy, … Continue reading
Health information resources
Some more health information resources gathered from HIFA 2015 by Indi Munasinghe of Phi. My thanks to both. Presentation about the mHealth Evidence Database Pleas click on website Discussion by the Working Group on mHealth Evidence base which is a … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Information resources, Technology
Tagged E-Resources, Evidence based health care, mobile phones
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Mobile phones in outreach
Catmeurn, Programme Associate, m-Health Alliance gives an example of how mobile phones can empower the community through the provision of information, in this case to mothers through an organization MAMA (Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action). The project to support mothers … Continue reading
Mobile phone technology in libraries
Whilst many of the uses described here seem to be in a pilot stage it is perhaps worth looking at the series of guides – Pathways to Best Practice – so as to be aware of what is going on. … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Libraries, Libraries of the Future
Tagged induction tours, Information literacy, libraries, mHealth, mobile phones
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Library Service Aims to Reduce Maternal Mortality
Mothers-to-be, new mothers and their infants will benefit from the new mobile phone e-health service to be provided by Northern Regional Library in Ghana. The library, based in the administrative capital of Northern Ghana, Tamale, is one of three new … Continue reading
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Tagged African public libraries, Ghana, maternal health, mobile phones
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mHealth: new horizons for health through mobile technologies
This is a very interesting publication from WHO – but long and 3.4 Mb to download. It covers the use of mobile technology for professional consultations, health call centres, reminders about medication/ appointments and alerts about epidemics to name but … Continue reading
“In just two years most internet traffic will be from mobiles”
So libraries need to think mobile. The technology described here is based on an article by Boris Zetterlund who is part of the company that have developed the mobile app MyLibrary from Axiell Arena. This software connects libraries, museums and … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged apps, libraries, library users, mobile phones, MylLbrary, shared catelogues, social networking
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Research in the Palm of Your Hand
Many publishers are designing platforms for mobile phones, but Alan Jackson, Aptivate, came up with the idea that these initiatives might also help researchers in countries with low bandwidth. Many publishers have shown great interest; Cambridge University Press has already … Continue reading
Animated cartoons: using mobile phones for health [and farming] messages
Scientific Animations Without Borders, University of Illinois, USA has already produced one such example on the prevention of cholera and others on topics for rural farmers. The narrations could be translated into local languages and thus could reach low-literacy communities. … Continue reading
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Tagged community health information, mobile phones, video
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Who else, other than librarians, are knowledge brokers?
I think that the upshot of a discussion* on infomediaries (in agriculture and health) is that they are needed at every stage of information distribution – through research workers, practitioners to the general public. I personally believe that researchers and … Continue reading
