2016 ICT4D Conference

Recently, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Foundation, and Johns Hopkins University's Global mHealth Initiative have contributed to developing the WHO mHealth Assessment and Planning for Scale (MAPS) Toolkit. The MAPS Toolkit offers a comprehensive self-assessment and planning guide designed to improve the capacity of program managers to objectively assess the maturity of their projects and measure progress towards ensuring sustainability. Since its initial release, the MAPS Toolkit has undergone a digital transformation into a web-based platform that facilitates an interactive approach for registering mHealth implementations, documenting scale-up experiences, viewing performance metrics, and crowdsourcing/sharing of lessons and resources. The session will serve as the global launch of the WHO-digitized MAPS platform, providing program managers the opportunity to learn about the web platform tools that aim to strengthen their implementation capacity for scale-up. This hands-on session will also allow program managers a forum to provide critical feedback on how the platform's functionality can be improved upon, in support of their need to monitor and optimize implementations. With increased use, the digital MAPS platform offers features supporting submission and systematic curation of user-populated content related to lessons from field experiences, practical tips, and resources of value to the ICT4D ecosystem.