Switchboard is honored to be considered for one of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Next Century Innovator Awards and is currently 1 of 25 still in the running. The awards are given to innovators whose work is improving the lot of poor and vulnerable people.…
Switchboard, in partnership with the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Vodacom successfully launched the Health Network Programme on 11 February 2013. This programme will allow 9,000 health workers to make free calls and send free SMSs to one another countrywide.
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Switchboard CEO Eric Woods discusses the “missing middle layer of available capital in the social innovation space,” in the latest TechCrunch article. Switchboard partnership model also featured as a way to engage the private sector. Check it out here.
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Alison Bloch, Senior Director of Strategy and Development of Switchboard, promoting Switchboard’s work at the 2012 mHealth Summit. Check out the video below!
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Switchboard is pleased to announce that CEO Eric Woods has been selected as a PopTech Social Innovation Fellow for 2012. The program is designed to “equip world-changing innovators with the tools, insights, visibility and social network that can help them scale their impact to new…
Switchboard is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a speaker at the GSMA-mHealth Summit…
Switchboard is pleased to announce that CEO Eric Woods has been selected as a Rainer Arnhold Fellow for 2012.
The Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program commemorates the life of Rainer Arnhold, a German-born physician who spent his life practicing medicine, teaching medical students around the world,…
Eric Woods, CEO and Founder of Switchboard, speaks at the 2011 mHealth Summit, after accepting the Top 11 Innovators in Mobile Health for 2011 Award. The award was selected by the mHealth Alliance and Rockefeller Foundation. Check out the video below!
We would like to sincerely thank Google.org for providing Switchboard with a grant of $250,000 to connect all doctors and nurses in Tanzania on a free mobile phone network.
Tanzania has one of the lowest health worker-to-patient ratios in the world, so there is a…
Switchboard is very pleased to announce that Dr. Patricia Mechael has joined our Board of Directors.
Dr. Mechael is one of the key thought leaders in mHealth. She serves as the Executive Director of the mHealth Alliance, a central convener for the mHealth community that…
