Subject: [TIER] Phones for health - evaluation, book, links From: "Aman Bhandari" <amanbhandari@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, March 11, 2009 10:31 am To: tier@tier.cs.berkeley.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- There has been a rush of phones for health pieces recently along with a book release in April 2009. The first link is an important reminder that the evidence base still needs to be built up:  1. Phones for Health: Great Idea, But Where's the Evidence? http://blogs.cgdev.org/globalhealth/2009/02/post_1.php  2. Closing the digital divide, Independent UK “Pick any development problem – poverty, health, education, governance, climate change – and you’ll find that information and communications technologies, including mobiles, are already an integral part of the solution, and that will be increasingly true,†says Richard Heeks, Professor of Development Informatics at the University of Manchester.  "But the feedback from the developing world isn’t all positive. Researchers in Tanzania found that almost half the people they spoke to sometimes sacrificed necessities such as food and clothes to keep their mobile phones running, and that less than 15 per cent thought the benefits of owning a mobile justified the costs."  3. BOOK - Mobile Health Solutions for Biomedical Applications, April 2009 http://www.amazon.com/Biomedical-Applications-Healthcare-Information-Informa...  I have put up more links here: http://thdblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/mobile-phone-development-link-drop/  Aman  _______________________________________________ TIER mailing list Website: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu TIER@tier.cs.berkeley.edu https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tier