The Mobile World congress in Barcelona isn’t all about business and cool new products. There are also charitable efforts emerging, like the new alliance between the UN, Vodafone, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s mHealth Alliance that aims to use mobile technology to offer better worldwide healthcare, especially to rural areas in developing countries where doctors are few and far between. And the group is asking more members to join.
The UN/Vodafone Foundation Partnership has produced has listed over 50 mHealth programs around the world in a new mHealth for Development study, showing the benefits to healthcare that mobile technology can offer.
