I feel there's a huge flaw in the logic with this application.
If these people could afford smart phones, they probably wouldn't have a huge malaria problem.
Am I missing something?
If these people could afford smart phones, they probably wouldn't have a huge malaria problem.
Am I missing something?
It doesn't seem logical on the face, but once you start adding up costs it's quite likely that it would be, especially if they can convince a smartphone manufacturer to donate a few hundred or thousand units (I'm sure that there are smartphone manufacturers donating money to the anti-malaria efforts already, as it's good publicity and can be used in advertising. Donating smartphones instead of money is a very small step, as well as possibly cheaper - the retail price for a smartphone is not the price of manufacture).
E.g. In villages in India or Africa etc., there might be one person with a computer and an internet connection who might offer his/her services as a co-operative for the residents of the village. The same way, one smartphone equipped with the relevant applications per district or a village can effectively tender assistance to all those in need from the surrounding areas.
It's going to be like cell phones which were pretty ubiquitous in the third world years ago when it wasn't even the case here. They bypassed landlines and went straight to cell, and the same will probably be true of computers and smart phones.