Blog #7 "How Cell-Phone Data Could Slow the Spread of Malaria"

This article is about the epidemic disease called Malaria that has impacted millions of people around the Eastern African countries. The article points out that there is new data that can help find out get to the disease by getting to its original source and how it travels among individuals traveling in the country. The new high techs phones out there can track the problem by tracking information and figuring out where the real problem comes from. The study done in Nairobi suggests that were data collect by anonymous travels around the country to track the problem and where is the Malaria epidemic is originating from. The disease has taken so many lives of people around the world who travel around the world. The research is focused to track the effect of the disease and help control it by building maps of parasite movements between sources of infections and areas where people get the disease and spread it amongst other people by traveling. The researchers say the data could provide a new way to use smart phones to improve public awareness and public health around the areas heavily affected by the disease. As well as using the data to decide where to focus malaria control programs, the research could result in programs to send warnings via text message to people traveling to high-risk areas.

I found this article to be informational based on the data found and how the study could help people find the process of reducing the Malaria epidemic. The new cell phone technology now have the potential to power people with the information that can help them improve human lives and those around them.  The Science study done by the research is  the largest ever attempted technology to use cell phones as a way to find more tools. The research could help people around the world who live in poor areas to use this tool which could empower them by making their lives better.


 http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429569/how-cell-phone-data-could-slow-the-spread-of/