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mNutrition and ICT: Mobile Phones as the Next Avenue to Improve Nutrition

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  • Rituparna Dutta

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This paper overviews of the nutrition problem, and locates ICT and mobile phones as a major role player in improving the nutritional status of the people, especially women and children, in developing countries. mNutrition is an initiative in which mobile phones will be used as a drive to tackle the problem of malnutrition among children and women. GSMA has undertaken the initiative to deliver a range of mobile services covering areas of nutrition, agriculture and healthcare and entail the launch of behaviour change communication services, agricultural extension services, population-level registration and data tracking.

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  • Rituparna Dutta, 2015. "mNutrition and ICT: Mobile Phones as the Next Avenue to Improve Nutrition," Working Papers id:6384, eSocialSciences.
  • Handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:6384
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