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Texting can save lives: Matt Berg – The 2010 TIME 100
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
Thunderbird ‘05 alum Matt Berg recognized by Time magazine for his work using SMS technology to improve health care in Africa:
ChildCount+ has been in existence for only nine months and has already reported more than 20,000 nutrition screenings, 500 cases of malnutrition and 2,000 of malaria. Berg and his colleagues are now scaling up to monitor more than 100,000 children under 5.The use of technology in Africa has long been Berg’s passion, and he’s made it his mission to nurture homegrown talent too. He helped establish the Rural Technology Lab in Mali, so local students can take over the job of ensuring their communities’ health. Remarkable as Berg’s work is, its greatest achievement will come when he’s no longer the one doing it.
via Matt Berg – The 2010 TIME 100 – TIME.
