Sustaining mHealth in Africa: Learning from SouthSouth Experience

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Sustaining mHealth in Africa Learning from
South-South Experience

• Dr Adesina Iluyemi
• Chair, Global Health
• NEPAD Council
• PhD Candidate
• University of Portsmouth
• ailuyemi_at_nepadcouncil.org

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User-centric mHealth conceptual model
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Barriers to Wireless eHealth in Africa

• Technological
• Governance policy, high investment costs ,
  availability
• Power /Electrical Infrastructure
• Organizational/Management issues
• Economic/Financial Infrastructure
• Non-availability of Low-cost Broadband TIs
• High costs of broadband TIs especially of
  satellite TIs
• High costs of IADs
• Lack of appropriately priced IADs

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Business Models

• Financial Sustainability a major impediment
• eHealth projects must develop innovative Business
  models
• Business models matter (Social Enterprises)
• Commercial type
• Research/Academic type
• Innovative models
• 2nd Revenue stream
• Collaboration Franchise Partnerships
• Diversification to Citizen-centric services

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Infrastructure Evolution

• Health Workers opinion from Africa
• Software iterative
• Webpage WebSMS (Open Source
  Software)
• Network Evolution
• GSM WiFi/WiMAX
• Device isomerism
• Desktop Laptops
  Smartphones

OLPC-like/ Netbooks
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Beyond Mobile Phones SMS
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Conclusion

• What can we learn from M-Banking?
• Innovation
• Enterprenurlism/Job creation
• Multiple Players, Services Products
• Competition
• Sustainability/Scalability
• Regulation
• So many pilots all over Africa, what we need is
  Pan-African sharing and massive scale up!