Committed to Connecting the World
Brief about ICTs Applications activities
Telecommunication Development Bureau
Cybersecurity
and ICT Applications Division
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International
Telecommunication
Union
Committed to Connecting the World
ICTs for health – eHealth
Since 1994, ITU has implemented telemedicine projects in developing countries and
organized seminars and workshops on telemedicine in different parts of the world.
Activities:
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Raising awareness about ICTs’ role in improving healthcare delivery in developing countries
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Providing assistance in implementing technical cooperation projects in e-and m-health
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Encourage collaboration between the telecommunication & the health sectors in developing
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countries to maximize utilization of resources for implementing eHealth
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Disseminate experiences & best practices on ICT technologies’ use in eHealth in developing
countries (incl. creating guidelines and training materials on e-Health applications)
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Promote the development of technical standards for eHealth applications and develop
guidelines for developing countries on how to use them
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Facilitate the establishment of collaboration platforms that bring together e-Health experts
from the industry, academic institutions & NGOs to stimulate cooperation and knowledge
sharing
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Encourage cooperation among developing and developed countries in the field of m-health
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/ICT-Applications/Pages/EHEALTH.aspx
International
Telecommunication
Union
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ITU-D Publications on eHealth
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Facilitating national eHealth planning
The National eHealth Strategy Toolkit (2012) presents a
methodology and set of resources to guide country decision makers to
develop their national eHealth strategy and roadmap.
Several countries have already used the toolkit to
develop/update/review their eHealth national strategy.
Facilitating eHealth infrastructure planning
The Scaling eHealth Services in step with ICT transformation
(2011) provides guidance to e-Health planners on e-Health services that
can be deployed immediately with available infrastructure and on which
additional services can be added as the infrastructure is transformed
according to the needs and constrains of the target demographics
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Documenting new ICT Applications
M-Government
• Published a report with OECD on “Mobile
Government for responsive governments and
connected society”
• The report documents the use mobile
technologies to enhance government’s
performance, improve public service delivery, and
engage citizens and civil society organizations in
policy and decision making both in developed
and developing countries,
• The report is available at: http://www.itu.int/ITUD/cyb/app/m-gov.html .
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Activities on mHealth
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WHO-ITU NCDs & Mobile Health
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ITU in partnership with WHO, launched a joint work plan to use mobile
technologies to address the Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) burden
through scalable mHealth solutions
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The initiative targets 8 countries in 4 years in the area of prevention,
treatment and policy enforcement.
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Costa Rica is the first country to implement a national mHealth
program for Smoking Cessation
The initiative aims at:
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Leveraging the mobile platform for health to address Non Communicable
Diseases (NCD) and their risk factors that make the largest contribution
to mortality and overall disease burden in majority of developing
countries
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Enhance country capacities to develop and employ mobile technologies
and communications channels
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Create country level platforms and environment for partnership
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Design mHealth for NCD intervention projects
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Strengthen capacity of local stakeholders for optimal and efficient use of
available resources
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Validate use of mobile NCD projects
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Commission on Information and Accountability for
Women and Children’s Health (CoIA)
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ITU co-vice-chaired the Commission’s on Information and Accountability
for Women and Children’s Health set up by UN SG to propose a framework for
global reporting, oversight and accountability on women's and children's health.
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ITU in collaboration with WHO prepared a background paper on ICTs’ contribution
to accountability for women’s and children’s health and the role that ICT could
play to enhance accountability for resources and results to fulfil MDG 4 and 5:
http://www.everywomaneverychild.org/images/content/files/accountability_commission/ICT
_for_Accountability.pdf
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ITU will be publishing soon a “Baseline Assessment” report on the use of ICT for Improving
Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health based on the findings of
the WHO Global eHealth Observatory survey.
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ITU is also involved in the implementation of the work plan set by the Commission
through the provision to technical assistance and organization of regional
workshops. Four regional workshops are organized with WHO to support countries
in developing their eHealth strategies focusing on Women’s and Children’s Health.
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ITU-D CYB recent Publication on
eHealth
ICT for improving information and accountability for
Women’s and Children’s Health (2013)
Information and communication technology (ICT) and
eHealth applications play an essential role in meeting the ten
recommendations set by the Commission on Information and
Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health (CoIA).
Together, they aim at creating a system to track whether
donations for women's and children's health are made on
time, if resources are spent wisely and transparently, and
whether the desired results are achieved.
This report reviews each of the ten CoIA recommendations,
highlighting the contributions ICT applications can provide in
their implementation and in fast tracking the fulfillment of
the MDGs 4 and 5
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Wireless Broadband Initiative
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Deployment of wireless broadband in rural and remote
areas
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Development of national ICT broadband network plan
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Development of ICT applications and services that improve
public services (schools and hospitals)
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Capacity building of local experts on the operations of the
deployed wireless communication networks
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Provision of low cost devices such as laptops
Partnership for its implementation :
ITU and WHO: African Health Infoway (AHI):
 WHO coordinate development and installation of computer systems,
 ITU facilitates deployment of infrastructure in countries in collaboration with
national telecommunication carriers and other technology partners
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