Designing for Resiliency 3 Principles

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Encourage Unexpected Use

As Storm Ketsana struck Thailand, health workers using InSTEDD GeoChat alerted each other of floods, how to avoid injuries and rescuing villagers

Rwanda , Tanzania & Ethiopia deploying live datasets of health facilities, services, infrastructure.

Simple datasets that are kept “live” are a powerful platform for locally invented apps.

Empower the Edge

Survivors of the Haiti earthquake averted health issues and accelerated the recovery with help of geo-targeted information sent to their mobiles.

Farm Radio Africa combines IVR calls, questions and FM Radio programs to share working practices and collect questions to address; boosting local learning.

Design for Everyday

In a story of failure, the H1N1 outbreak was not addressed with proven mobile tools due to lack of mobile operator preparedness – a simple contract negotiated in advance would have saved lives

During the Ebola crisis, diagnostic devices equipped with CDX connectivity reported positives faster to health workers, and accelerated the validation process of diagnostic assays. They same system reports data every day for TB, HIV, etc globally.

Encourage Unexpected Use

Empower the Edge

Design for Everyday