Roscoe Nsumbuga of Mapswitch on using biometric identification cards used as part of a money transfer service that is enabling millions of Ugandans to access low-cost banking services via their mobile phones. Recorded on November 23, 2009 at TEDxKampala.
Roscoe: “You see someone riding on a bicycle for 30 or 50 kilometers to reach a financial institution. This is not sustainable.”
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Great post. I fully agree that we’re headed to great increases in personal health monitoring. But it seems to me to have much impact a lot is going to have to be done to make sure data collected is credible. We’ll need standard measures and calibration. We’ll need open data standards. We’ll need standard protocols for data collection and handling. It seems to me it’s going to be hard to get acceptance of personal data by the medical establishment unless unless there’s some rigor in the collection process. And the work of heading toward this bigger goal needs to start soon before the marketing process turns all this into a hodgepodge of proprietary systems and services.