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Title: Sustaining mHealth in Africa: Learning from SouthSouth Experience


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Sustaining mHealth in Africa Learning from
South-South Experience
  • Dr Adesina Iluyemi
  • Chair, Global Health
  • NEPAD Council
  • PhD Candidate
  • University of Portsmouth
  • ailuyemi_at_nepadcouncil.org

2
User-centric mHealth conceptual model
3
Barriers to Wireless eHealth in Africa
  • Technological
  • Governance policy, high investment costs ,
    availability
  • Power /Electrical Infrastructure
  • Organizational/Management issues
  • Economic/Financial Infrastructure
  • Non-availability of Low-cost Broadband TIs
  • High costs of broadband TIs especially of
    satellite TIs
  • High costs of IADs
  • Lack of appropriately priced IADs

4
Business Models
  • Financial Sustainability a major impediment
  • eHealth projects must develop innovative Business
    models
  • Business models matter (Social Enterprises)
  • Commercial type
  • Research/Academic type
  • Innovative models
  • 2nd Revenue stream
  • Collaboration Franchise Partnerships
  • Diversification to Citizen-centric services

5
Infrastructure Evolution
  • Health Workers opinion from Africa
  • Software iterative
  • Webpage WebSMS (Open Source
    Software)
  • Network Evolution
  • GSM WiFi/WiMAX
  • Device isomerism
  • Desktop Laptops
    Smartphones

OLPC-like/ Netbooks
6
Beyond Mobile Phones SMS
7
Conclusion
  • What can we learn from M-Banking?
  • Innovation
  • Enterprenurlism/Job creation
  • Multiple Players, Services Products
  • Competition
  • Sustainability/Scalability
  • Regulation
  • So many pilots all over Africa, what we need is
    Pan-African sharing and massive scale up!
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