Vincent Njoroge – Global Business Leader, IBM East Africa

18/04/2011

Connected Kenya Summit:

Innovation cases in Healthcare &
Employability

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Smarter healthcare: Deliver proactive, patient-centered care

to support the needs of the chronically ill and promote wellness

The Innovation:
Personal medical devices used for patient
monitoring, screening and routine evaluation
generate data which is automatically
transmitted into a patient's personal health
record for sharing with a physician.

Monitor The Benefits:

a patient’s health status
or condition.
Analyze
the data in real-time.
Act
to provide proactive responses
to medically significant events.
• More accurate, real-time
health information
• Supports a patient in
proactively managing his
or her care
• Monitoring is simple
and convenient
• More timely feedback
from medical specialists
to patients

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Smarter healthcare in Nigeria’s Cross River State: Client

transformations
THE PROBLEM:
 Cross River State suffers from some of the worst child
and infant mortality rates in the African region – many from
preventable, treatable causes.
 250 out of every 1000 children in the state die before
reaching the age of five.
 Two-thousand out of every 100,000 women die during
child birth.

THE INNOVATION:
 Projects Hope and Comfort depend on the mass registration of citizens for free healthcare and financial
support
 Working with government departments, healthcare workers and local IBM business partner Quanteq, they
have been able to bring to bear IBM's global expertise in advanced technologies such as biometric
identification systems and solar energy to increase the efficiency, reliability, accuracy of the systems.

THE OUTCOME:
 To date, around 130,000 mothers and children have registered to receive free healthcare through project
Hope and another 5,600 families have registered for financial support through project Comfort.
 Goal to reduce child and maternal mortality rates by 50% by the end of 2011 and halve the number of
people living in abject poverty by 2015.
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Smarter healthcare in Tanzania: SMS for Life Client

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THE PROBLEM:
 Malaria causes nearly one million deaths in Africa each
year, mostly among pregnant women and young children,
and many people die because they simply lack quick
access to vital medication. 

THE INNOVATION:
 A new solution developed by IBM ,Novartis and Vodafone with
the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, is helping to save lives using
everyday technology to improve the availability of anti-malarial
drugs in remote areas of Tanzania 
 Called "SMS for Life," the initiative uses a combination of
mobile phones, SMS (Short Messaging Service) technologies and
intuitive web sites to track and manage the supply of Artemisinin-
based Combination Therapy (ACT) drugs and Quinine injectables,
both of which are key to reducing the number of deaths from
malaria. 

THE OUTCOME:
 During the first few weeks of the pilot, the number of health facilities with stock-outs in one district alone,
was reduced by over 75 percent. The early success of the SMS for Life pilot project has the Tanzanian
authorities interested in implementing the solution across the rest of the country. Tanzania has around 5,000
clinics, hospitals and dispensaries, but at any one time, as many as half could potentially be out of stock of
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Smarter government services: Integrating service delivery to

improve access to city information and resources

The Innovation:
Business intelligence software automates
data collection and information sharing among
thousands of employees in dozens of
departments, better enabling a city to inform
citizens, address service requests and provide
critical data to first responders.

Compile
information from across
city agencies. The Benefits:
• Effective and efficient
reporting, and analysis
Analyze and management of
the information to identify resources
needs and actions to take.
• Empowering citizens
• Better response time
when incidents occur
Distribute • Significant cost savings
information to city leaders
and citizens.

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Smarter government services: Spoken Web in India

The Problem:
 To help millions of people across Karnataka state state find work

The Innovation:
 IBM and The Karnataka Vocational Training and Skill Development Corporation, or KVTSDC, an organization
within the Department of Labour in India, have announced a new partnership to help citizens find work using their
mobile devices.
 A new cloud computing platform will allow job seekers and job providers to connect, expand searches and cross
reference candidates, get training and certifications, understand job trends and share information all through their
mobile devices and in their local languages.
 In addition a mobile crowdsourcing platform will enable candidates to rank and refer jobs to one another and
drive dissemination of available opportunities. Unique skill matching techniques will be used to match job seekers
with available jobs while employability analytics will allow employers and the government to understand demand
and supply trends. The employability marketplace will run on the IBM Cloud providing a pay-as-you-go model and
elastic scaling.
The Spoken Web creates a system that is comparable to the World Wide Web using speech technology and the
telephone, landline or mobile. Spoken Web helps people create voice sites using their telephones. The user gets a
unique phone number which is equivalent to a URL and when other users access this voice site they get to hear
whatever content has been uploaded there.

The Outcome:
 The first phase of the project will be implemented in two districts, Mandya and Bijapur
 Karnataka is the first state to set up a skill commission and take the lead in the Government of India's objective of
having 500 million skilled people in India by 2022. The Karnataka Skill Commission and the KVTSDC were
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constituted in September 2008 with the objective of creating 1 million new jobs within 5 years.
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Thank you for your time today.

For more information, contact:

• Walter Mhlongo
Client Solution Executive, IBM East Africa
waltermh@ke.ibm.com

• Vincent Njoroge
Global Business Services Lead, IBM East Africa
vincentn@ke.ibm.com

• Vivian Ashioya
Client Representative Manager, IBM East Africa
ashioya@ke.ibm.com

• Bill Doak
Public Sector Leader, IBM Middle East and Africa
bdoak@ae.ibm.com
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