mNutrition and ICT: Mobile Phones as the Next Avenue to Improve Nutrition

Rituparna Dutta ()

Working Papers from eSocialSciences

Abstract: This paper overviews of the nutrition problem, and locates ICT and mobile phones as a major role player in improving the nutritional status of the people, especially women and children, in developing countries. mNutrition is an initiative in which mobile phones will be used as a drive to tackle the problem of malnutrition among children and women. GSMA has undertaken the initiative to deliver a range of mobile services covering areas of nutrition, agriculture and healthcare and entail the launch of behaviour change communication services, agricultural extension services, population-level registration and data tracking.

Keywords: Nutrition; Malnutrition; Mobile phones; Information and Communications Technology; ICT; mNutrition; GSMA; GAIN (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-01
Note: Current Affairs
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.esocialsciences.org/Download/repecDownl ... &AId=6384&fref=repec

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:6384

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from eSocialSciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Padma Prakash ().