Managing microfinance with paper, pen and digital slate

Ratan, Aishwarya Lakshmi; Toyama, Kentaro; Chakraborty, Sunandan; Ooi, Keng Siang; Koenig, Mike; Chitnis, Pushkar; Phiong, Matthew

doi:10.1145/2369220.2369255

Cited by 33 publications

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“…Mobile phone tools have been designed to simplify data collection [9,10], improve community health worker performance and effectiveness [11,12,13,14,15], and digitize data from paper forms [16,17].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving Maternal Labor Monitoring in Kenya Using Digital Pen Technology: A User Evaluation

Underwood¹,

Sterling²,

Bennett³

2012

2012 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference

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Paper-based systems for monitoring maternal labor have been shown to reduce life-threatening complications in low-resource environments; however, significant barriers exist to the use of these tools in developing countries. This paper presents the PartoPen -a digital pen system that enhances a common labormonitoring form known as the partograph. The PartoPen system provides real-time data feedback and reinforces birth attendant training, while retaining the paper-andpen interface currently used by most healthcare workers. In this paper, the results from a preliminary user evaluation of the system in a Kenyan hospital are described. The qualitative results collected in this study indicate that the PartoPen system is easy to use, and addresses many of the current barriers facing effective partograph use in developing countries.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving Maternal Labor Monitoring in Kenya Using Digital Pen Technology: A User Evaluation

Underwood¹,

Sterling²,

Bennett³

2012

2012 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference

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“…Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD) is a growing field dedicated to bridging the divide between developed and developing communities through appropriately applied technology (Dias and Brewer, 2009). Resulting projects span many areas ranging from telemedicine (Surana et al, 2008), to assistive technology (Pal et al, 2011), to microfinance (Ratan et al, 2010), to education (Kam et al, 2009). Engineers are often part of the multi-disciplinary research teams involved in ICTD.…”

Section: Enhancing English Literacy In Low-literacy Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preparing Engineers for a Global Future through Guided Opportunities to Innovate for Underserved Communities

Dias¹,

Teves²,

Dias³

2015

Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

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“…Finally, Ratan et al [18] present a financial record management application built on a low-cost digital slate device. The solution accepts handwritten input on paper forms and provides electronic feedback.…”

Section: Paper Forms In the Developing Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digitizing paper forms with mobile imaging technologies

Dell

Breit

Chaluco

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development

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In low-resource settings in developing countries, most records are still captured and maintained using paper forms.Despite a recent proliferation of digital data collection systems, paper forms remain a trusted, low-cost and ubiquitous medium that will continue to be utilized in these communities for years to come. However, it can be challenging to aggregate, share, and analyze the data collected using paper forms. This paper presents mScan, a mobile smartphone application that uses computer vision to capture data from paper forms that use a multiple choice or bubble format. The initial mScan implementation targets the task of digitizing paper forms used to record vaccine statistics in rural health centers in Mozambique. We have evaluated the accuracy and performance of mScan under a variety of different environmental conditions, and our results show that mScan is a robust tool that is capable of accurately capturing and digitizing data from paper forms.

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Managing microfinance with paper, pen and digital slate

Cited by 33 publications

References 17 publications

Improving Maternal Labor Monitoring in Kenya Using Digital Pen Technology: A User Evaluation

Improving Maternal Labor Monitoring in Kenya Using Digital Pen Technology: A User Evaluation

Preparing Engineers for a Global Future through Guided Opportunities to Innovate for Underserved Communities

Digitizing paper forms with mobile imaging technologies

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