Creating Technology for Africa

My friend and fellow Thunderbird alum Matt Berg is improving health care to 100,000 African children - 1 text at a time.

As the Director of ChildCount+, Matt and his team of 100 community health workers are able to improve child and maternal health. Using sms text messages to register and monitor health of community children, ChildCount+ is able to provide timely and rapid response to health care needs, thus reduce gaps in treatment for children under the age of five.

The mission of this organization is built around five goals:

• Register every child and pregnant woman
• Screen for malnutrition every 90 days
  
• Monitor for malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia
  
• Provide timely child immunization support
  
• Record all births and deaths

What's equally great about this model is that the 100+ local workers are trained to ensure the health care of their respective communities.

This is BRILLIANT BRILLIANT BRILLIANT!!!

Time Magazine recently named Matt among their 2010 Time 100 people who most affect our world.

Congratulations Matt!

Can't wait to see how this improves child and maternal health across the African Continent and beyond.