The NoAppForThis! Podcast
The NoAppForThis Podcast Series tells the story of six designers, currently developing health applications from ideation to launch.
They will share their personal experiences, insights, challenges, and lessons learned along the way.
The podcast series forms part of the Wellcome Trust Project, implemented across 3 countries (Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa) by the Open Institute, CIPESA and The Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) working in collaboration with the of University of Warwick in the UK, University of Nairobi, and University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.
The NoAppForThis! Podcast
Episode 0 | Introducing the #NoAppForThis Project.
The imagery of Kenya as the Silicon Savannah has led to the establishment of new norms in which developers consciously or unconsciously adopt standards and practices from Silicon Valley. Challenging these norms is important because it challenges the logic that people who finance the development of health apps own all the data that they collect leading to migration of health data so that it can be added into bigger and bigger data sets, is crucial to the development of mHealth.
This component of the #NoAppForThis project includes an experimental incubator for start-up app designers and developers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Six health app designers (trainees) will be supported to build health apps that explore ways in which users can be better empowered.
This podcast is intended to introduce this component of the project and discuss why it was set up as an incubator. It also outlines what we hope to learn and broadly achieve.
The NoAppForThis podcast is part of a project by Wellcome Trust, implemented across 3 countries (Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa) by the Open Institute, The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA), and The Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) working in collaboration with the of University of Warwick, in the UK University of Nairobi, and University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.
