In sub-Saharan Africa, power outages, low technology penetration, slow internet and understaffed hospitals plague health care systems. To make progress on these problems in Malwai, TED Fellow Soyapi Mumba and his team created a new system from scratch — from the software that powers their electronic health records to the infrastructure used to support it. In this quick, hopeful talk, Mumba shares how his jack-of-all-trades mindset can help reshape health care in low-resource environments.
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I wonder how long it took them to do all of this. Amazing how when the government fails them they need to find ways themselves to improve their failing systems
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DARK-LORD-VINAY “they”are the government.
Oh, mb for not knowing the full information
Amazing!! That applause was well deserved!
Sounds like this guy is calling Africa a shithole. I don’t take kindly to that. I think this joker needs to meet Cory Booker and explain himself.
oaxacachaka because it is a shithol
oaxacachaka Disease and poverty are rampant.The GDP per capita in the DRC is less than $1000.Do you want to live there?And what’s this talk about Corey Booker?A privileged American who makes hundreds of thousands at the least a year?
Jason not all of it ..south Africa ..Egypt are modern
Yep when there isn’t wire or fiber underground or on poles you go RF. Even old Ma Bell in the U.S. used to use Microwave RF back into the 40’s and 50’s to transmit phone and video then went coax and then fiber.
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Bloody amazing
Some more TedAfrica
so what’s the deal if a contenant is developing. why people are so negative these days? did we complain about industrialization of europe?
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We did, it’s called communism ☭.
You know what. I love this talk. For two reasons.
1: It is about technology being designed and implemented for a purpose and doing it well.
2: The speaker didn’t open their talk with a sob story and/or anecdote.
Agreed. Do you think that this is because it isn’t a feminist or sjw speaking?
Oh god I hate it when they open with a personal story or something about some kid they met in the region, it’s like just tell us what this is about already.
GG to this guy, building a comprehensive healthcare administration system from scratch and tackling all the nuanced problems that entails especially in an underdeveloped country IT wise is a big challenge. To put this in scope for everyone else, the UK or US would pay some third party tech company to do this and it’d cost millions upon millions. Where as him and his team problem solved a much harder system to update with far less money and increased efficiency massively. That’s ingenuity
Fantastic what people can do when they put their mind to it!
Tedious, detail-oriented, thankless work that’s utterly life-saving.
2sudonim so true. No glory, no huge payout, just the pure desire to tackle a problem to help aid those that no one else cares about. True nobility
Everybody know that if it wasnt for the fault of the white man, África should be the richiest city in the galaxy.
I’m not scrolling lower than I need to in order to post a comment. If you see this comment I recommend you just go up on the page again. There is nothing below me but a sea of racism and pseudo-science. It is a video about the African TED Talks that have been taking place lately, after all.
So you made your own solution… well done
awesome simply awesome the power of will !!!!
When there is a will there is a way
Absolutely there is!
This is incredible! I hope they have some kind of website for people who want to donate to them and help them expand their services.