Open Deliver: A Process for Managing Educational Digital Content | ICT Works

Open Deliver: A Process for Managing Educational Digital Content | ICT Works: At its most fundamental level, the role of mobile technology within health systems should be to improve access to and sharing of valid health information. There is a real opportunity to exploit existing technological capability to provide equitable access to content that, if adapted for each context, could provide a complete educational foundation for a country’s frontline health workforce. Yet rather than designing a suitable system for delivery of digital content, we’ve let the mHealth ecosystem emerge by chance through independent procurements, mostly at the program level, often resulting in fragmented, duplicated - but disconnected - unsustainable systems. The few exceptions involve the use of voice or text requiring fees related to connectivity.  These systems would also have to be supplemented for training the next generation of frontline health workers (FHWs). They lack the detail necessary for instruction requiring a visual reference such as: distinguishing physical