SMS Birth Registration: People, Ideas And Culture Responds To PSFK Future Of Health Rep... - 5 views
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awqi zar on 18 Aug 10In many developing nations, newborn babies are in a bit of a blind spot. Difficulties in registering births both for the parents and the government make it hard to keep check of the population. But with the insight that people have access to mobile phones and networks (Africa, for example), we've developed a service that allows the parents to register the birth of a child via their cellphone, and that also rewards them for doing so.