Putting Pen to Paper in a Digital World

FAO project in Southern Africa bridges digital divide
Veterinary authorities in countries of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) used to have to make major decisions – such as quarantining – based on sketchy and slow disease information from the field. Until one day, an FAO livestock officer and an IT colleague came together to apply wireless technology to the old-school pen and paper. Suddenly, information that once arrived in a month took just seconds. Innovative digital pens scan disease reports at village level, then send them wirelessly to a cell phone and onward to servers in the capital. [...]

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