AUTOMATED HEALTHCARE ASSISTANT
ASSA (Assistant Sanitaire Automatique) is a “health assistant” app helping in the country’s fight against COVID-19, by providing the public with national news and other information sources that give advice on how citizens can avoid getting sick and prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.
ASSA was developed by Tidiani Togola – a tech and innovation maker, who describes himself as a futurist at heart. Tidiani founded Tuwindi in 2015 to support socio-economic development, good governance, democracy, and the rule of law through ICT.
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The Malian population and Africa in general has low lev- els of literacy and high levels of poverty, yet widespread use of smartphones. The number of doctors and nurses is limited, and healthcare platforms have little funding. For this reason, the population needs to be equipped not with an ordinary mobile app, but rather an Automated Healthcare Assistant based on machine learning, an app, which should also speak to its users in their own languages. ASSA was developed to provide a digital platform and tool, which facilitates people’s access to quality health- care and medical service provision.
WHAT HAS BEEN THE IMPACT OF YOUR PRODUCT
In the current environment, the ASSA platform is being used to help combat the effects of COVID-19 effectively in different ways. One of them is working with the Ministry of Health. The UNDP Office in Mali approached us to help support the Ministry, where we are now providing the ASSA platform’s Dashboard data collection system, mobile app and the chatbot.
By UNDP Africa Innovates: 50 Homegrown African Solutions Tackling COVID-19.
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