"The workers texted me, they sent flowers, they believed in me".
Administrative data indicate that throughout the course the system sent 620 prompt texts, and participating health workers texted the system a total of 640 times to prompt a call.
"So, if one district has a lot of community workers texting questions about how to make oral rehydration salts, we can make a pretty good guess that something is wrong and send a team to investigate," explains Mr. Fabian.
Much of the digital detoxing is centered on the home, where urgent e-mails from co-workers, texts from friends, Instagram photos from acquaintances and YOLO updates on Facebook conspire to upend domestic tranquillity.
mTrac, a Ugandan programme that replaces paper reports from health workers with texts sent from their mobile phones, has made data on medical cases and supplies more complete and timely.
In Kenya, coffee growers routinely pay their field workers by text message, and in Tanzania, Vodafone customers pay the national electric utility, Luku, by text.
That operator can summon support workers via text message to take care of simple requests, like pillows or help with the television remote, freeing nurses to deal with bigger problems like pain relief or tangled IV lines.
Slaves turn into workers in text books and the Civil War was about northern aggression.
The LQAS study also confirmed a 90% decrease in travel costs because health workers could text, instead of renting a bike, to obtain technical support.
A health information system But the most essential aspect to the new program is that the workers use text messages, which they send just seconds after they weigh and measure the children to a database that is run by the country's Ministry of Health.
It took him only minutes to catch a restaurant's bartender doing a shot with the chef, a waitress making a date with a customer and a kitchen worker sending text messages while a rush order was pending.
