Women’s health holds a position of utmost priority on the agendas of numerous organizations and networks worldwide. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the Women’s Health Network of Latin America and the Caribbean (La Red de Salud de las Mujeres Latinoamericanas y del Caribe- RSMLAC) has emerged as a driving force, advocating for and defending …
In Latin America, many organizations have embraced the utilization of data collection technologies to promote well-being and enhance the quality of life within their communities. These organizations operate across diverse sectors, ranging from healthcare to youth empowerment, all sharing the common objective of harnessing technology to gather valuable insights and make informed decisions. Below, we …
Tech for data collection in Latin America: Four NGOs to follow Read More »
In the digital era, the use of messaging apps has become an integral part of our lives, with WhatsApp emerging as one of the world’s most popular platforms. Its widespread adoption and user-friendliness establish WhatsApp as a powerful tool for communication and data collection within the healthcare domain. For non-governmental organizations (NGOs), providing multilingual chat …
Patient navigation can be defined as personalized support for both families and individuals undergoing care for a variety of medical conditions. Patients and families may be in a particularly vulnerable moment, encountering a number of barriers to care, including misinformation and trouble with language. Navigators aim to act as advocates, facilitating and accompanying patients along …
Navegación de Pacientes Internacional: An initiatve to eliminate barriers to care Read More »
Have a click around! The map is the result of ongoing research, but is nowhere near complete. Information on this topic is scattered and often highly selective because big funders will author publications on the subject, mainly including programs they fund themselves. This means that some of the smaller, community-led digital health efforts can be …
The Latin America and Caribbean region is home to around 454 million internet users. That’s roughly 10% of internet users worldwide. On the other hand, only about 5% of the content on the internet is available in Spanish. Three of the top 5 countries that clock the most hours on social media are in Latin …
7 Interesting Facts – Internet Use in Latin America and the Caribbean Read More »
According to internet penetration statistics, 51% of the world’s population (approximately 3.6 billion people) has access to the internet. Of this percentage, there are three languages that concentrate the largest number of internet users: English, 25.2%, Mandarin Chinese, 19.3% and 7.9% Spanish. However, if we further look into this stat, we find that Chinese-Mandarin is …
We should push the digital health industry to be multilingual. Read More »
The Wejya device costs just 5% of the price of traditional respirator machines on the market. It was created by a group of Colombians based in Cali. The Wejya Automatic Resuscitator is used for mechanical assisted breathing in hospital settings. Its main features are: User friendly Easy to reproduce and scale Open source Safe for …
Spanish is the official language of 20 countries in the world (plus Ecuatorial Guinea and Puerto Rico). If you add countries that have a high percentage of Spanish speakers, such as Aruba (80%), Belize (52%), or the United States (18%), plus all of the places where Spanish is spoken in some capacity, you’re talking about …
There are hundreds of options out there when it comes to digital data collection tools. Finding the right one can be a difficult and time-consuming task. So how do you pick out the best option for you when you’re trying to solve your data collection needs? To answer this question, two members of the TecSalud …
How ‘user friendly’ are the popular data collection tools? We evaluated 3. Read More »
Two members of the TecSalud team, an engineer and a designer reviewed 3 of digital development’s highest ranked data collection platforms to see how they match up. Read more about the face off and our score categories in the intro blog. Across our 5 scoring categories, we found CommCare to score highest, though we didn’t weigh …
Two members of the TecSalud team, an engineer and a designer reviewed 3 of digital development’s more popular data collection platforms to see how they match up. Read more about our scoring categories in the intro blog. We found SurveyCTO to be very easy to use! It functions in a very similar way as CommCare, with …
Digital Data Collection Platform Review: SurveyCTO Read More »
Two members of the TecSalud team, an engineer and a designer reviewed 3 of digital development’s highest ranked data collection platforms to see how they match up. Read more about the face off and our score categories in the intro blog. Magpi is a great tool for one-time surveys, with a big advantage of being the …
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, MEET DOMESTIC (USA) DEVELOPMENT. Many of us spend our entire careers between Washington and somewhere else in the world. When I made the switch from US development to global, I was amazed by how little my colleagues were utilizing the nonprofit resources we develop and use at home in the United States. The …
There’s a free, multilingual nonprofit technology use assessment and we give it an A+ ! Read More »
Why? So more people can understand them! We’re a multi-lingual team. We’re constantly communicating between English and Spanish. We reference best practices, share relevant resources and gather data to use with our partners across Latin America and the Caribbean. While this region isn’t the most popular international development destination, there are a number of smaller …
Consider translating your digital development materials. Read More »
Money talk. For many of us working in international development, global health, social impact, the topic of ‘how much does this cost’ can be difficult to navigate. We have worked on both sides of the aisle (in our former lives) and have worked out some strategies for making pricing conversations easier. TecSalud presented pricing navigation …
Let’s Talk Money: Communicating with Technology Vendor Sales Reps in Digital Development Read More »
There’s a lot of debate about what to call the industry we work in – the industry of applying technology (hardware, software, connectivity) to contribute to social good. Some popular names include “Technology for Good,” “Digital Development,” and “Information Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D).” Let’s take a closer look at ICT4D, one of the industry’s …
Digital Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Read More »
In our last blog, we discussed why our industry has so many names and why we prefer the term “Digital Development.” Now that we’ve landed on a name, we’re sharing some of our favorite resources from the industry. At TecSalud, we often get asked if we have any go-to Digital Development resources. Today we’re sharing …
We’ve all read articles about organizations that are bringing technology to remote, rural communities. Whether it’s developing laptops or drones, lights or fingerprint scanners, all of these groups seem aligned in their mission to implement technology that “does good” for underserved populations. So, when we started TecSalud, we had to ask ourselves the question: Does the …
Does the world really need another “tech for good” organization? Read More »
