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Kenya Community Health Volunteer / Promoter (CHV/CHP) home-based care programmeActive· Kenia (Community Health Units nacional; casos en Meru, Bondo, Kisumu)· systemiciCow (Green Dreams Tech)Mobile phone-based farming platform designed for basic phones without internet, delivering agricultural and livestock knowledge via SMS, livestock management reminders, a virtual marketplace (Soko) and expert lookup. It was born out of an Apps4Africa hackathon and operates via Safaricom (*285#). Since ~2019-2022 the organization pivoted to regenerative agriculture and soil health under iCow Regen Academy; the original SMS/Soko product is largely historical.Active· Kenia (nacional, vía red Safaricom)· nationalShamba Shape Up (Mediae)Makeover-format television series (edutainment) produced by The Mediae Company that visits smallholder farms in Kenya and improves them on the spot with experts, demonstrating soil fertility, animal health, agronomy and climate adaptation practices. It airs on Citizen TV with an audience of millions of weekly viewers in East Africa.Active· Kenia (nacional, vía red Safaricom)· nationalPiramal Sarvajal solar water ATMs (franchise safe drinking water)A social enterprise that installs water ATMs: solar-powered, cloud-connected purified water dispensing machines operated by a local entrepreneur under a franchise model. Users pay with a prepaid RFID card. An IoT device (Soochak) monitors quality, liters and machine health in real time. It operates hundreds of plants in rural and urban areas across several states.Scaled· India (sede en Nueva Delhi; operación nacional)· nationaleCHIS Kenya (electronic Community Health Information System)National community health information system of Kenya's Ministry of Health: a smartphone app (based on Medic's open source Community Health Toolkit) with which more than 107,000 Community Health Promoters register households, manage cases and supplies, refer patients and exchange data with facilities' electronic records. Development since 2020, pilot in Kisumu in mid-2021, scale-up to all 47 counties by mid-2024, with more than 107,000 CHPs using the platform. Part of the presidential agenda to professionalize and pay CHPs.Active· Kenia (Community Health Units nacional; casos en Meru, Bondo, Kisumu)· systemicUNAL / HUN Digital telemedicine network (Centro de Telemedicina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia)Telemedicine program of the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, created in 2002 to bring specialized health services to remote regions (Amazonas, Vichada, Guaviare, Caquetá, Arauca, Putumayo, among others). It has served more than 30 health institutions and today operates through the Hospital Universitario Nacional (HUN Digital: teleconsultation, tele-expertise, TeleUCI Solidaria) and the program 'Conectando la salud a la región', which under Agreement 2129 of 2025 with MinSalud, UdeA and UniCartagena installs teleconsultation centers in remote municipalities such as Puerto Leguízamo (Putumayo), avoiding river journeys of 6-8 hours.Active· Bogotá (sede) con operación en Amazonas, Putumayo, Arauca, Guainía, Chocó, Tumaco y San Andrés· national

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