Telecom Lead Africa: Ericsson has supplied 3G network and services to help schools and health clinic to do better in Ethiopia.
Ericsson says that its 3G services will benefit more than 4,000 students at two schools and a health clinic in the Millennium Village of Koraro, Ethiopia, connectivity benefitting more than 55,000 people.
This apart, more than 4,000 students in two schools will have access to cloud computing through Connect To Learn program.
The 3G connectivity enables more than 4,000 students and their teachers to access to modern learning and teaching resources through Ericsson’s cloud-computing solution. Health workers will use Sony Mobile’s phones and broadband provided by Ericsson to deliver health services directly to households to collect health information for improved monitoring.
Elaine Weidman-Grunewald, vice president and head of Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility, Ericsson, said: “Connecting the health clinic in Koraro is one part of a new joint continent-wide campaign that aims to train, equip and deploy one million community health workers throughout rural sub-Saharan Africa by the end of 2015, reaching millions of underserved people.”
The deployment of Ericsson’s cloud computing solution in Connect To Learn at Koraro, Masho Secondary School and Megab Secondary School, includes netbooks and wireless terminals that enable both students and teachers to access educational resources on the Internet, along with basic ICT skills training for teachers.
In Koraro, community health workers use open medical record system and a smartphone-based health-data management system to collect information and report on malaria and other diseases, the number of births, and the incidence of malnutrition and the health status of pregnant women during household visits.
In all, Ericsson has provided connectivity to Millennium Villages in 11 countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania Uganda and Liberia.
