Notice C

Promoting the collaborative development of proposals for investments in digital health global goods

Scaling health worker capacity at the last-mile of low-resource supply chains through self-learning and community support on mobile phones

Submitted by Arun Ramanujapuram on Fri, 07/13/2018 - 22:25 Last revised by Digital Square on Mon, 04/15/2019 - 05:59.
Notice C Opportunity: 
Announcement C0: Global Good Software Development and Support
Application Status: 
Approved – Contingent on Funding

Comments

Amanda BenDor - Wed, 08/15/2018 - 17:08

Thank you for your concept note and I look forward to seeing the full application. I recommend as you expand the application you detail further the two user groups (those for Pulse and for Iota) and detail how the training content will differ for each user.  Please also address sustainability of the content as well as how you anticipate additional content to be curated past the life of the project.  If you have not already, I also suggest you engage with Digital Campus to expand the proposal.  They may be a great partner!

Arun Ramanujapuram - Thu, 08/16/2018 - 07:09

Thank you, Amanda, for your feedback. We will consider Digital Campus along with others in our evaluation.

Arun Ramanujapuram - Fri, 08/17/2018 - 03:46

Sustainability of content is an excellent point you make, Amanda. Thank you for bringing this up. With respect to sustainability, we are thinking in terms of content maintenance and cost of production/maintenance. One of the things we see enabling sustainability in this context, comes down to the way content is produced. For instance, independent video-snippets expalining different, logical (smaller) workflows in the application seem to enable more sustainable content, where changes to one workflow (e.g. discards of inventory) requires changes to only one video. Secondly, the cost of production, esp. customization of the content, is another thing we will have to address, which the proposal aims to reduce by enabling/recommending content production procedures that enable local customization (say, language change). Have you come across other models of achieving sustainability of content? Would be good to hear other experiences in this regard. Thanks.