Software medical cards from Rwanda

The system of electronic cards, which allows many different types of data to be layers in a single image is to improve health through Rwanda.

Digital maps, the so-called geographic information systems (GIS), are intended to gather information from multiple databases and use it to track and predict outbreaks of disease.

This can be used to assist developing countries to better utilize its limited resources. For example, GIS is used to organize data on groups of diseases and the availability of drinking water.

“Roads, power lines and buildings can be digitized, you can also get information about the characteristics of buildings, whether residential, commercial,” Max Baber from the University of California in Redlands, is a leading GIS project in Rwanda, Li World Service Bi-Bi – Si programme Digital Planet.

“Once things in a certain place, you can begin to explore the spatial relationships between them.”
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