Mobile Technology Innovation to Improve Public Health in Cambodia

By InSTEDD Global | Jan 29, 2016 | Blog, Cambodia

In partnership with The Ministry of Health’s Communicable Disease Control department (CDC Cambodia), InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia, with support from Skoll Global Threat Fund, announces the launch of technology innovation solutions for improved infectious disease detection and disease surveillance.

The announced innovations will enable CDC Cambodia to improve the timeliness of infectious disease reporting from all of the 1000-plus health centres nationwide, as well as enable open participatory reporting from citizens. A new web-based tool will help the CDC Cambodia team to screen online media, while sending alerts for potential disease outbreaks related-information.

January 29, 2016 will mark the official launch of the use of the Digital Disease Detection and Participatory Surveillance System by CDC Cambodia. The event will take place at Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center (CJCC), Angkor-Kizuna Hall.

Dr. Ly Sovann, the CDC Cambodia Director, says: “The early detection technology tools will help us tremendously. With InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia’s support, our communication and response system will get faster, much faster than ever before.”

Mrs. Channe Suy, the Regional Lead at the InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia adds: “Innovative technology solution can be great support to public health especially when the speed of information has to be faster than the speed of disease spreading. We are excited for the opportunity to collaborate with CDC Cambodia to integrate mobile technology solution and innovate the existing system that protect against outbreaks and pandemics even more effectively.”

Slide presentations:

Disease Detection System from InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia

Disease Detection Syste by Eduardo Jezierski, InSTEDD CEO

CDC Cambodia Tech Launch: Finding Outbreaks Faster from InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia

Finding Outbreaks Faster by Dr. Mark S. Smolinski, Skoll Global Threat Fund

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InSTEDD would like to express our sincere appreciation to all of our partners for the years of exceptional collaboration with the InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia and for your contribution to its success in providing important solutions for social good.

Our original vision when we established the iLabSEA was that it would ultimately become a separate entity, locally owned and operated, in a model that provides social benefit and fits within the local economy. After 13 years of service to our local community, we are thrilled to announce that InSTEDD has closed our iLabSEA and the team from the LabSEA has now established an independent social enterprise organization, Kawsang.

We are confident that Kawsang will continue to provide the excellent service that has become their leadership team’s standard.

We are excited to have you join us in celebrating the success of realizing our vision for the iLabSEA and we very much appreciate your participation in this success and continued collaboration with Kawsang.