I think your point about “Vaccines and medications are still not reaching enough of the people who most urgently need them.” and “The market won’t—and can’t—address this need without some kind of innovative intervention from outside.” is really important.
I have been attempting to harness the potential of Geographic Mapping since 1993 in an effort to reach youth in Chicago neighborhoods with site based, non-school tutor/mentor programs. Such programs need to be in 50 of 77 community areas, and need to be in place for many years if they are to help kids living in high poverty move from first grade to first job over a 20 year period. Few programs have the marketing ability to attract consistent donors, and few have a revenue model that can pay for services by charging fees. Thus, I’ve always focused on placing information about programs and where they are needed on the internet, or in new stories, so that others can take a role in assuring that such programs exist. I’ve never found consistent funding for this, thus, I’m sure you at the Gates Foundation don’t know I exist. Yet my idea for using map platforms to connect resource providers and service providers was recognized in 2004 by the Institute for Social Inventions in the UK. http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/images/PDF/social innovation award nomination 2004.pdf
I mention this only to emphasize that with your much larger resources you not only can map where people need vaccines, medicines, clean water, eye care, tutoring, mentoring, etc. but you can also fund organizations building directories of service providers and intermediaries who are needed to help deliver needed services in many, many places. If you provide consistent, on-going funding, those platforms will continue to exist and will constantly be updated. More importantly, if you and other leaders within the .1% use your visibility to draw resource providers to the maps, then to the places where their time, talent and operating dollars are needed every day, you can dramatically change the flow and distribution of needed resources and services in all parts of the world.
In my blog I point to a 1992 front page of the Chicago SunTimes, which demanded action from Chicago residents after the killing of a 7 year old boy. http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2012/10/ive-not-forgotten-dantrell-davis-have.html Look in the Chicago papers, or in other big city papers, and 20 years later this problem sill persists. I think one reason is that there never has been an information base such as what I’m describing, that connected resource providers with places where help is needed, and kept them connected year after year, for many, many years.
I read about the Gates Foundation’s intent of building a world wide database recently in a Forbes.com article. I said “How do I get into this conversation with my own ideas on how such databases might be used?” I hope this introduction is one way.
I as India based research partner of one innovative startup would like to draw your kind attention towards khushibaby.org for their innovative approach to digitize and individual monitoring of vaccination in rural of India.
COMMENTS
BY Daniel F. Bassill
ON January 27, 2015 09:01 AM
I think your point about “Vaccines and medications are still not reaching enough of the people who most urgently need them.” and “The market won’t—and can’t—address this need without some kind of innovative intervention from outside.” is really important.
I have been attempting to harness the potential of Geographic Mapping since 1993 in an effort to reach youth in Chicago neighborhoods with site based, non-school tutor/mentor programs. Such programs need to be in 50 of 77 community areas, and need to be in place for many years if they are to help kids living in high poverty move from first grade to first job over a 20 year period. Few programs have the marketing ability to attract consistent donors, and few have a revenue model that can pay for services by charging fees. Thus, I’ve always focused on placing information about programs and where they are needed on the internet, or in new stories, so that others can take a role in assuring that such programs exist. I’ve never found consistent funding for this, thus, I’m sure you at the Gates Foundation don’t know I exist. Yet my idea for using map platforms to connect resource providers and service providers was recognized in 2004 by the Institute for Social Inventions in the UK. http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/images/PDF/social innovation award nomination 2004.pdf
I mention this only to emphasize that with your much larger resources you not only can map where people need vaccines, medicines, clean water, eye care, tutoring, mentoring, etc. but you can also fund organizations building directories of service providers and intermediaries who are needed to help deliver needed services in many, many places. If you provide consistent, on-going funding, those platforms will continue to exist and will constantly be updated. More importantly, if you and other leaders within the .1% use your visibility to draw resource providers to the maps, then to the places where their time, talent and operating dollars are needed every day, you can dramatically change the flow and distribution of needed resources and services in all parts of the world.
In my blog I point to a 1992 front page of the Chicago SunTimes, which demanded action from Chicago residents after the killing of a 7 year old boy. http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2012/10/ive-not-forgotten-dantrell-davis-have.html Look in the Chicago papers, or in other big city papers, and 20 years later this problem sill persists. I think one reason is that there never has been an information base such as what I’m describing, that connected resource providers with places where help is needed, and kept them connected year after year, for many, many years.
I read about the Gates Foundation’s intent of building a world wide database recently in a Forbes.com article. I said “How do I get into this conversation with my own ideas on how such databases might be used?” I hope this introduction is one way.
BY Mohammed Shahnawaz
ON January 27, 2015 09:38 AM
I as India based research partner of one innovative startup would like to draw your kind attention towards khushibaby.org for their innovative approach to digitize and individual monitoring of vaccination in rural of India.
thanks