The concept of
leapfrogging has been around since the early stages of the Internet stock
bubble of the beginning of the last decade. The notion is that developing nations
can learn from the experiences of the industrialized first world nations and
skip generations of costly, inefficient, and/or environmentally damaging
technologies and restructure and begin implementing more advanced, less costly
technology.
So for example,
rather than build an energy infrastructure dependent on fossil fuels, a
developing country can leapfrog to solar power, mini-hydro, and wind turbine
electricity production. Rather than setting up hundreds of miles of copper wire
for landline telephones, leapfrog straight into cellular phone technologies.
Not only is there a positive environmental sustainability issue being
addressed, but you also address a social dimension. People would be able to get
access to resources and technologies that they never had access to before.
Currently nearly a third of the world’s population of 7 billion people has no
electricity, and another third of the world’s population have very poor access
to electricity. Renewable power production has the potential to change all of
that.
Addressing such
infrastructure concerns also promotes positive changes in those societies that
aid in righting the wrongs of social injustices in such societies, and easier
to address matters of health, education, and gender equity.
Health informatics
is a field which is based on the intersection of information technology with
medical science. Kallo, Inc. specializes in providing health informatics in
such a way as to allow a developing country to leapfrog into a functioning
healthcare infrastructure where one barely existed before. For instance, they
provide technology that allows for mobile medical facilities to collect medical
data on patients and use wireless technology to send the data to a central
facility for complete diagnosis. The data can then be used not just to help the
individual patients but studied as a whole to recognize and specify actions
against disease trends.
It is poverty that
causes overcrowded health care clinics that are unable to maintain a standard
of sanitation, which allows for the spread of disease. It is poverty that
stigmatizes culture to be part of the source of the suffering of people in
developing nations. A rising healthcare infrastructure plays a role in aiding
to eliminate abject poverty. The spread of diseases can actually be propelled
by poverty and oppressive socioeconomic structures. That is a key reason why
vaccinations against diseases are so important.
This past January,
Kallo signed a $200 million supply agreement with the Republic of Guinea, and
has begun work on the country’s healthcare infrastructure with their RuralCare
and MobileCare services. The country continues to fight a raging Ebola epidemic
that has cost the lives of 101 people, and has spread to the neighboring
country of Liberia, where it killed 10 people. Two new cases of Ebola virus
have occurred in yet another neighboring country, Sierra Leone. The Ebola virus
kills 90% of the people it infects, and is ultimately containable, but lack of
medical infrastructure in Guinea is making this difficult as experts believe
the outbreak may continue to grow for another four months. As Kallo and others
helps build up Guinea’s healthcare infrastructure, such disease outbreaks
should be more easily controlled, contained, and treated in the future.
For more
information, visit www.kalloinc.ca
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