Smartphone – Route to Clean Drinking Water and More

Using the app, you can register waterholes via GPS data and mark them on an open online map. Health workers will analyse the water samples and enter the test results also via the app into the online card. If the waterhole is marked with a green point, the water is drinkable. If it receives a red point, the water is unhealthy and cannot be drunk.

Mobile apps are more and more used in Africa, too, in order to get information on the local (agricultural) weather and on market prices. Learning apps are used as substitute teachers, while Serious Gaming playfully practices the appreciation for the environment and health.

Read and see more:

http://www.mwater.co/
http://www.icow.co.ke/
http://www.pambazukomashinani.org/
http://afrilabs.com/
https://gc21.giz.de/ibt/opt/site/gc21/public/mobile/start_mlearning.jjsp