Delivering maternal health care through mobile biometrics in urban slums in Bangladesh
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Description
Simprints is a nonprofit tech company committed to improving the lives of the poor. We work with organisations like Doctors without Borders, the World Health Organisation, and MercyCorps to develop the tools their health workers use on the front lines of global health in developing countries. Specifically, we're building a mobile biometric scanner that allows health workers to connect patients with no IDs to their records via fingerprint. We're supported, among others, by the Gates Foundation, USAID, and UKaid. Our work has been recognised by Unicef as the 2015 "Best Tech: Changing Children's Lives for Good" award.
Objectives
Our project UKAD-INN-083 is focused on ‘Delivering maternal health care through mobile biometrics in the urban slums of Bangladesh’. We aim to ensure that maternal health care records are made readily accessible to Community Healthcare workers by using fingerprint & biometric identification technology, creating unique ID records allowing remote, smart technology access to medical records. The project is currently being implemented across four slum areas in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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We have designed hardware and software for the worn, scarred fingerprints of the poorest populations that commonly defeat Western-designed biometric systems. With the help of our partners at BRAC and the University of Cambridge, we have tested Simprints with 125,000 fingerprints across Zambia, Benin, Nepal, Uganda, Kenya, and Bangladesh in both urban and rural contexts. We pitted a wide range of sensors, templates, and matching algorithms against the toughest fingerprints we could find to optimise our system in terms of power, speed, ruggedness, and affordability.
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- BRAC International
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