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The annual ICT4D Conferences have proven to be an invaluable opportunity for NGOs, private sector organizations, universities, governmental agencies and foundations to share their experience in using ICT to increase the impact of development programs and to learn from each other.  In 2016, 715 individuals from 76 countries and 301 private sector and public sector and civil society explored the ways to harness the full power of digital solutions to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.  Our thanks to Accenture, Catholic Relief Services, Esri, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, iMerit Technology Services, Inmarsat, IS Solutions, Making All Voices Count, Mercy Corps, Microsoft, NetHope, Oxfam, Pandexio, Qualcom Wireless Reach, RTI International, SimbaNet and World Vision for making that possible.

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Dr. Sherri Bucher

Indiana University School of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Research
United States
Dr. Bucher is a co-investigator and research coordinator for Kenya in the Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Health Research, a multi-site consortium dedicated to the investigation and implementation of strategies to improve maternal-neonatal-child health in low- and middle-income countries. She has served as Principal Investigator/co-Investigator on several funded initiatives related to neonatal resuscitation training in resource-limited settings using Helping Babies Breathe (HBB). Dr. Bucher is an international Master Trainer for HBB, She serves as a US-based HBB Country Mentor to Kenya on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Dr. Bucher is a Contributing Editor and Master Trainer for Essential Care for Every Baby (ECEB), a simplified curriculum for essential newborn care; she served as PI for the Kenya site on the global field evaluation of ECEB. Dr. Bucher also participated as a Contributing Editor, and is a Master Trainer, for Essential Care for Small Babies (ECSB).

Dr. Bucher is particularly interested in how ICT solutions can be utilized in resource-limited areas to: (1) profoundly reduce morbidity and mortality from preventable causes of newborn death; (2) build sustainable health worker capacity; (3) contribute toward achievement of targets, goals, and objectives in the Essential Newborn Action Plan; and (4) facilitate international public-private collaboration.

The ODK-based HBB data collection app, “mHBB,” developed by her team with support from the Laerdal Foundation, was featured as a case study in the ASH mHealth compendium volume 5. https://www.msh.org/sites/msh.org/files/2015_08_msh_mhealth_compendium_volume5.pdf

Currently, in partnership with Johnson & Johnson and with technical support from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the mHBB team is performing a needs assessment, landscape review, and contextual analysis to support opportunities, and identify partners, for scale-up of mHBB in sub-Saharan Africa. Please contact us if you are interested in participating!
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