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How ICTs helped contain Ebola virus in Nigeria- Johnson
October 28, 2014
A combination of the use of an Android app, Facebook and twitter were instrumental in Nigeria?s fight to contain the dreaded Ebola virus, Omobola Johnson, minister of communications technology, has disclosed.
Johnson said this in a policy statement delivered today at the at the ongoing International Telecommunications Union ITU 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-14) in Busan, Republic of Korea. Johnson who informed delegates made up of Ministers and senior officials from across the globe, that with Ebola time is very important added that- the phone app helped in reducing reporting times of infections by seventy-five percent: test results were scanned to tablets and uploaded to emergency databases and field teams got text message alerts on their phones informing them of the results.
Johnson reiterated that the combination of the internet and mobile cellular phones has opened up tremendous opportunities for countries like Nigeria...
October 28, 2014
A combination of the use of an Android app, Facebook and twitter were instrumental in Nigeria?s fight to contain the dreaded Ebola virus, Omobola Johnson, minister of communications technology, has disclosed.
Johnson said this in a policy statement delivered today at the at the ongoing International Telecommunications Union ITU 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-14) in Busan, Republic of Korea. Johnson who informed delegates made up of Ministers and senior officials from across the globe, that with Ebola time is very important added that- the phone app helped in reducing reporting times of infections by seventy-five percent: test results were scanned to tablets and uploaded to emergency databases and field teams got text message alerts on their phones informing them of the results.
Johnson reiterated that the combination of the internet and mobile cellular phones has opened up tremendous opportunities for countries like Nigeria...