1. focus areas
InSTEDD focuses on the four key areas of maternal/child health, infectious diseases, emergency
management and local innovation / leadership to improve health, safety and development worldwide.
At InSTEDD, we are inspired by our With a shared set of values and InSTEDD’s innovative approach is
interconnected world because we desired outcomes, we work with being successfully applied around
believe that by combining the others all over the world to develop the world — from pioneering
ingenuity of society with
the power of technology Using a human-centered process of software design efforts to integrate disease
we can overcome our and development, InSTEDD uses a “social-technical” surveillance and response
collective health, safety approach to solve humanity's most pressing health, systems in Southeast Asia to
implementation of a
and development issues at safety and development challenges.
nationwide communications
an unprecedented rate.
system to aid victims of the
long term sustainable solutions that catastrophic earthquake that struck
From Asia to Africa to Europe and
empower locals to drive the
the Americas, the InSTEDD team Haiti in January 2010.
development of solutions to their
has come face-to-face with the most
most important problems.
pressing global issues of our time.
focus areas
maternal / child infectious emergency local
health diseases management innovation / leadership

2. technologies
modern
Designed for low resource settings, all of our tools were created to take advantage of
existing technologies such as simple mobile phones and computers with limited
capabilities. Each tool was designed, tested, and improved by communities they serve
toolkit who often have limited access to electricity, internet or expensive hardware. Whether its
coordinating an emergency response to a natural disaster in Haiti, preventing the
spread of dengue in Cambodia, improving HIV/AIDS care in Rwanda or organizing crisis
rst responders in the USA, our tools are here to help.
Remindem
GeoChat is a collaboration tool that allows Remindem helps you keep people informed of Seentags is a service that helps
anyone to chat, report, and get alerts offline on important things going on in their life and work. extract accurate information from
their mobile phones or online on their computers. text reports.
Task Me Up
Mesh4X is a set of libraries, services and The Reporting Wheel is a non-electronic device Task Me Up helps you collaborate
applications that allow data to be synchronized that simplifies data reporting for the most remote
around unorganized data to better
across multiple applications, databases and files. workers, including those with literacy challenges.
process information.
Veeglio
Nuntium is a tool that allows anyone to build Resource Map helps people track their Veegilo aggregates disease indicator
robust and scalable messaging applications. work, resources and results
numbers from national databases into
geographically in a collaborative
a common space.
environment accessible from anywhere.
Pollit Verboice
Pollit helps you collect opinions, feedback Riff is a tool that helps groups analyze Verboice is an application that
and status updates from people, wherever and visualize multiple streams of empowers people to build their own
they roam. information. interactive voice response systems.
tools in action
Remindem, our text messaging tool, sends simple texts with to educate,
advise, and remind parents and caregivers worldwide about childhood
immunizations.
Verboice, our voice-based messaging tool, creates a way to verbally
communicate with communities by building voice-based educational
campaigns with tailored messages from local opinion leaders to educate
and engage parents and caregivers.
Resource Map, our collaborative mapping tool, lets resource coordinators
see who has sufficient vaccination supplies and where they are as well as
get alerts when supplies are too high or too low.
GeoChat, our team collaboration tool, lets health workers to stay in close
contact through group SMS, allowing them to immediately report possible
disease outbreaks and coordinate an immediate response.
Pollit, our mobile data collection tool, allows project leaders to instantly
assess community attitudes and behaviors by conducting SMS-based polls
that allow patients to evaluate their care them in a private and confidential
way.
Reporting Wheel, our data simplification tool, helps health workers overcome
literacy challenges by assigning numerical values to disease reports so they
can text in a number code that contains information from their health clinics.
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