How We Made a Health App that Works in India's Most Remote Areas
Designing an app is easy. Deploying it is the challenge.
Biraj Swain
Biraj Swain works on the intersection of poverty, public policy and citizens-state-engagement in South Asia, Horn East, Central Africa, and globally. She also teaches at the Pondicherry Central University, SLU-Uppsala, UNESCO-MISARC, UNU-Tokyo.
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