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FARM-Africa’s staff to present a ground-breaking paper at the Development Studies Association conference

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Ali Hassan, FARM-Africa Kenya’s Programmes Manager, will be addressing an audience of development specialists from around the world this week when he presents a paper discussing how mobile phones are revolutionising animal health in rural Kenya at the 2007 Development Studies Association Conference connecting Science, Society and Development, 18-20 September 2007.

The paper is based on the experiences of animal health workers regarding the introduction of mobile phones to support a decentralised animal health system as part of FARM-Africa’s Kenya Dairy Goat and Capacity Building Project.

The document is entitled “Keeping Up With Technology: The use of mobile telephony in delivering community-based decentralised animal health services in Mwingi and Kitui Districts, Kenya” and is authored by James Kithuka, Jacob Mutemi and Ali Hassan Mohamed, members of FARM-Africa’s expert staff in Kenya.

Ali Hassan Mohammed will be presenting the paper at a panel discussion around the role of mobile phones in development reflecting the immense growth in the ownership of mobile phones in developing countries, particularly among African rural communities. This has led to mobile phone technology increasingly being used as a tool to overcome barriers to rural development.

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