partners – Interactive Design for the Developing World

TICAH Health 2

Contacts

TICAH

(Primary) Sally Leiyan, sleiyan [at] ticahealth.org

Jeremiah Musyoka, jmusyoka [at] ticahealth.org
Bridget McGraw, info [at] bridgetmcgraw.com

TCNJ IMM

(Primary) Prof. Mark Thompson, thompsom [at] tcnj.edu

Benjamin Meyer, meyerb2 [at] tcnj.edu
Jared Entin, entinj1 [at] tcnj.edu
Daniel Breen, breend3 [at] tcnj.edu
Drew Bloksberg, bloksbd1 [at] tcnj.edu

Resources

Vision Document

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uB_4eGNyVFUjUq34ND1iyd8mRPDUjm9Ute0IMyMdROI/edit?usp=sharing

Project Overview

In order to gather and display feedback gathered from individuals in the community, the system uses FrontlineSMS. This software will need to be downloaded and installed on a computer before continuing with the setup guide. A sim card for a local number will need to be obtained with a dongle or an Android phone will need to be used in order to send and receive text messages. A list of recommended devices can be found here and here. Individual miales and elders are assigned to groups, which are tagged to allow for quick sorting through all of the feedback that has been received.

Setup Guide

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uxYVhiqoG_y5YsIfoau5yzS0jsYD_8gus0ArazyV_GY/edit?usp=sharing

CEWOD

Contacts

CEWOD

(Primary) Digna Peter, digner_peter [at] yahoo.com

Bridget McGraw, info [at] bridgetmcgraw.com

TCNJ

(Primary) Prof. Mark Thompson, thompsom [at] tcnj.edu

Brianna D’Anton, dantonb1 [at] tcnj.edu
Maria Molina, molinam3 [at] tcnj.edu
Melissa Sheu, sheum1 [at] tcnj.edu
Samantha Mills, millss2 [at] tcnj.edu

Resources

Vision Document

Vision Document

Current Progress

Dongle issues / Dongle disappeared
Frontline SMS Groups, Subscription & Notification
Talked about possible poster designs (the only thing Digna really wanted)

Goals for next week

Begin coding / have some sort of baseline to work with
One poster design finished / possibly sent to Digna for feedback

TICAH Health 1 – Aunty Jane SMS System

Contacts

TICAH

(Primary) Sally Leiyan, sleiyan [at] ticahealth.org

Jeremiah Musyoka, jmusyoka [at] ticahealth.org
Bridget McGraw, info [at] bridgetmcgraw.com

TCNJ IMM

(Primary) Prof. Mark Thompson, thompsom [at] tcnj.edu

OUR TEAM

Kerrin McLaughlin, mclaugk3 [at] tcnj.edu
Gabe Franc, francg1 [at] tcnj.edu
Adam Czaplinski, czaplia1 [at] tcnj.edu
Alexander Young, younga6 [at] tcnj.edu
Yu-sheng Tu, tuy1 [at] tcnj.edu

VISION DOCUMENT

http://bit.ly/ticahSMSProposal

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Our project’s goal is to create an SMS counterpart to TICAH’s Aunty Jane service. Aunty Jane is a hotline that allows users call questions about sexual and reproductive health. Our service will be utilized by TICAH directly, using automated functionality to read through the received messages. Our system will provide immediate, automated responses to inquiries by providing a list of SMS menus for the users to interact and receive information. For more specific questions the user will always have the option to get a personalized response back from a TICAH representative during operating hours. Our system will provide a solution to these problems community members face when using TICAH’s Aunty Jane service:

EDITING/EXTENDING THE SYSTEM

Basic Overview/Introduction to Text.in – textit.in

Text.in Video Tutorials – textit.in/video

Text.in Written Documentation – docs.textit.in

Resources

1000 Hills Community Helpers

Contacts
1000 Hills Community Helpers

Nathi , 1000hch [at] zamail.co.za
Dawn Leppan, 1000hch.dawn [at] zamail.co.za

TCNJ

(Primary) Prof. Mark Thompson, thompsom [at] tcnj.edu
Domenic Portera, porterd4 [at] tcnj.edu
Emma Dwight, dwighte1 [at] tcnj.edu
Isabelle Tan, tani1 [at] tcnj.edu
Niveda Harishankar, harishn1 [at] tcnj.edu

Resources

Project Summary

Our team worked with an organization in South Africa called 1000 Hills Community Helpers Center to create a Twitter Integrated SMS Alert System, as a way for the organization to remain in communication with their community members. The center can send out messages from the Twitter account that we set up for them and immediately reach different subset of their users. The members can subscribe to a list by texting a phone number with a keyword. There are three different keywords(#center, #class, #clinic).Members get texts specific to the keyword. Once subscribed, a confirmation text message is sent. Now, the user is subscribed to the list and will receive any tweets from the organization here on out that contains that specific keyword. We converted tweets to text messages to send it out the the members. There is a 140 character limit to Twitter posts so the text messages are within their limit.

A person who has subscribed to the center list will only get tweets that have “#center” in the sentence. The tweet below will only be received by people who have subscribed to the center list.

Often, community members travel distances to get access to the facilities of the center such as the clinic, schooling, daycare, etc. However, there is no portal for the organization to reach out to their audience and make announcements/provide updates except for word of mouth and sometimes, posters. This only reaches a fraction of their user base and is a necessary but inefficient process. We saw an opportunity in the high mobile penetration across the community to streamline this process. People used simple phones there for utilitarian purposes and we came to the conclusion that the best way to reach our audience was through SMS text messaging.

Take a look at our Demo Video .

Vision Document

Click the heading for the vision document for our project intended for the 1000 Hills Community Helpers Center.

Screen Shot 2015-05-04 at 11.18.34 AM — **Basic project back-end flow chart**

valley of 1000 hills poster — User Guide Poster

We used FrontlineSMS to create this application.

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