​Technology Toolkit



Welcome to the Zero Mothers Die Technology Toolkit. Here you will find a variety of mobile-based technologies that can support the implementation of maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) projects in the field.

Each technology has been selected based on a variety of factors, including the potential positive impact on MNCH, innovation behind the technology, suitability for rural and isolated areas, and cost.

Whether you're an organization looking to develop a mobile health MNCH project from scratch or integrate mobile-based technologies into an existing project, we hope the Zero Mothers Die Technology Toolkit will be useful to you!
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Efelya Pregnancy Passport

he Efelya pregnancy passport records the pregnant woman's medical history and creates a personalised risk profile across the six most common medical conditions for pregnancy. Efelya's goal is to anticipate and detect the risk of pathological pregnancies. Their team aims to make physiological pregnancy monitoring and pathological pregnancy screening accessible to all women, regardless of their country of residence or their access to local obstetric resource.

Lily Health

Lily is a AI powered chatbot delivering reproductive health advice to women in emerging markets via personalized conversations. Lily works on any mobile phone, over SMS or other messaging platforms. Lily allows women to text questions to their friend “Lily” and receive responses based on a database of information about reproductive health as well as personalized information about that woman’s cycle. The company currently operates in Kenya but has plans to expand other markets, including India, Bangladesh, Brazil, and the Philippines.

iCivil

iCivil™ is a Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) System. It is based on a mobile Application (under Android) which allows to record birth certificates. The details of every new-born baby are sent by a coded SMS from a mobile phone application to an officer of Health authorized for this purpose. This application links the details of the baby to a unique, and non-forgeable authenticator: a Bubble Tag™.


​MobileODT Mobile Colposcope

MobileODT is a cervical cancer screening system that operates on a portable device that attaches to a smartphone and links to a mobile app. MobileODT achieves this by creating breakthrough optical diagnostic devices and software services focused on early cancer detection and, soon, a range of other medical purposes. They deliver it at a cost that enables rapid uptake and wide utilization everywhere, particularly in low-resource settings.​
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​Safe Delivery App

The Safe Delivery App is an innovative mobile health solution using animated instruction films to train and instruct birth attendants to improve their skills and performance. The app is developed by Maternity Foundation in collaboration with leading scientists from University of Copenhagen and University of Southern Denmark. 

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​ ​GiftedMom

GiftedMom offers medical advice via SMS or a smartphone app to women in remote rural areas, educating them on prenatal care, vaccines and reproductive health. The app tells users when and where to get the treatment they need, and gives them access to doctors who can answer health-related questions via Facebook Messenger. The GiftedMom platform has a wide range of features which help users find a laboratory and comparing health insurance. Launched in 2012, the platform now has over 70,000 users in Cameroon and Nigeria.

​MAMA Mobile Messages Library (now BabyCenter Mission Motherhood)

MAMA messages library offers evidence-based and WHO-vetted vital health content in the format of mobile messages. The core messages are arranged by "age and stage" in two sets. The pregnancy/baby messages cover weeks 5 to 42 of pregnancy, and the first year of the baby's life. The child messages cover ages 1-3.
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EngageSpark

EngageSPARK enables any NGO to independently build and launch SMS and Voice Call alerts, surveys, reminders, educational curriculums, and on demand information campaigns to 200+ countries - within minutes. NGOs and Governments anywhere can use engageSPARK to extend the reach and impact of their social change programs to encompass all poor people in the world who have mobile phones.
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​ORB by mPowering

ORB is mPowering’s free online library of openly licensed, mobile-optimized training content for frontline health workers. Focusing on child and maternal health, including nutrition and family planning, ORB uniquely brings high-quality health content, optimized for use on mobile devices, onto a single platform, where it can be saved for viewing or sharing offline.

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Open Smart Register Platform

Open Smart Register Platform, or OpenSRP, is an open source mobile health platform that allows frontline health workers to electronically register and track the health of their entire client population. It's supporting and implementing organizations include UNICEF, The Earth Institute of Columbia University, WHO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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HealthPhone

HealthPhone offers preloaded health and nutrition videos for low-cost mobile phones. HealthPhone's health and nutrition content is scripted on knowledge prepared jointly by UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNDP, UNAIDS, WFP and The World Bank. The content, in 78 languages, is pre-loaded on microSD memory cards for popular low-cost models of mobile phones – no signal is required, nor cost to download videos and other media. 

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MIRA Channel

MIRA Channel (also called as Women Mobile Lifeline Channel) is an integrated mobile phone channel to provide health information to rural women and connect them with public health services using mobile phones in low-resource settings. The objective of MIRA is to enable women improve health indicators by self-managing their health and reach towards a larger goal of women empowerment using digital connect.


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Clean Birth Kits

Clean birth kits developed by the Traffina Foundation in Nigeria provide important containing sterile instruments and other necessary elements that women typically require at childbirth in order to have a safe delivery. The Clean Birth Kits can come equipped with mobile phones and an SMS campaign with basic pregnancy information and appointment reminders.

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Twintowin

Twinning is a ‘cross-cultural reciprocal process where two groups of people work together to achieve joint goals’. Twinning focusses on empowering midwives, who can subsequently be change-agents for their communities. This application provides you with the ins and outs of the twintowin method. The accent is on reciprocal learning, capacity building and on building personal sustainable relationships. More information on the twintowin method can be found on twintowin.com.

We Care Solar

We Care Solar designs portable, cost-effective Solar Suitcases that power critical lighting, mobile communication devices and medical devices in low resource areas without reliable electricity. By equipping off-grid medical clinics with solar power for medical and surgical lighting, cell phones and essential medical devices, We Care Solar facilitates timely and appropriate emergency care, reducing maternal and infant morbidity and mortality, and improving the quality of care in Africa, Haiti and other regions.

Bempu Temperature Monitoring Band

The Bempu Hypothermia Monitoring Device is a novel neonatal hypothermia monitoring bracelet. Bempu is built to serve areas where temperature monitoring is often overlooked due to understaffed hospitals and unaware or uneducated parents.  The device alerts in the event of neonatal hypothermia through an intuitive audio-visual alarm, which promotes corrective actions like Kangaroo Mother Care (skin-to-skin contact) and swaddling, as well as positive health-seeking behaviors. 
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Open Source MOTECH Platform for mHealth​

The MOTECH Platform is an open source enterprise software package that connects popular mHealth technologies to unlock new outcomes toward strengthening health systems. MOTECH has been deployed worldwide in numerous health domains including improving maternal and child health, frontline worker education and information collection.

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INSPIRE Respiratory Rate Monitor

INSPIRE is a portable diagnostic device that enables caregivers, at all levels, from individuals to Doctors, to perform an advanced diagnostic medical exam in one minute for local and remote patients. By automating the sensory device measurements, Caregivers can quickly use it as a diagnostic aid anywhere; in clinics, at home or in the most remote areas of the world.  Unlike other devices and methods of diagnostics, INSPIRE uses proprietary methods for a vitals exam quickly with heart rate, respiratory, anxiety levels, body positions and more.

Moyo Fetal Heart Rate Monitor

Moyo is an affordable fetal heart rate monitor designed for intermittant and prolonged monitoring in low-resource settings. With a 9-crystal sensor, Moyo picks up fetal heart rate in a wide area and detects fetal heart rate in less than 5 seconds. Moyo enables birth attendants to make appropriate obstetric interventions and eases the workload without interrupting existing routines. To increase reliability of the detected heart rate, Moyo can also measure maternal heart rate. Moyo is lightweight and portable so the mother can wear and move freely. Moyo gives a visible and audible alarm for the health worker and/or mother when fetal heart rate is not normal.
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FREO2 - Siphon

FREO2 - Siphon is an electricity-free oxygen concentrator which is durable, affordable and has no ongoing costs. The system harnesses energy from a small amount of running water to  seperate oxygen from the surrounding air. 
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FREO2 - Siphon aims to give people greater control over their health by providing community health clinics with a vital tool in the fight against pneumonia.
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Medical & Health Internet-in-a-Box | South Asia Edition

The Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) device is a complete single-board computer with an in-built Wi-Fi hotspot that allows for easy distribution of information in places where access to the Internet is limited, controlled, not affordable or simply unavailable.  Within a range of 50 to 100 meters, up to 32 people at any one time can connect to the device with a mobile phone or computer to access and download its content, free of any charge. It also functions as a mini app store in that those connected to it can download and install a number of offline apps.  IIAB does not offer a connection to the Internet or to content beyond that stored in the Box itself. Medical and Health Internet-in-a-Box is available from today ₹1,999. / US$30.