Voxiva has been developing innovative mobile information solutions to help clients around the world address their most critical information challenges in Health and Public sectors.

 Because many of the users of the Voxiva solutions have not easy access to the Internet, they are accessible using multiple technologies (Web, PC Client, Mobile Phone Client, SMS, IVR) giving them a much broader reach than Internet-only solutions.

These solutions are built on the Voxiva platform and they support: Real-time, multi-channel data collection, Data management & analysis and Communication & information sharing.

OBJECTIVES OF THE CURRENT PROJECT

Strengthens the capacity of emergency and disaster management through the use of an innovative integral platform of information and communication that will facilitate the greater participation of the citizens   and the social organizations in the prevention and attention of disasters in the local or national level .  

THE PROBLEM

Before the worsening of the problems caused by the natural disasters and the ones generated by the action of the human being,   greater availability of direct and opportune information on dangers and vulnerabilities is required. This information must be produced nearby to the places at the risk of occurrence of a disaster.   In these usually rural areas in developing countries, the Internet access is still   scarce or nil and the flow of existing information is not automated, exceeding the available times for the need of answer and attention of the populations directly affected by the disasters.  

THE SOLUTION

The Voxiva platform will let the citizens and social organizations to send reports using any devices of information and communication as the pay phones, fixed phones, mobile phones, SMS  or computers connected to Internet  available in points close to the place at the risk of occurrence of a disaster.

These reports should include information to prevent risks (as climatic changes or increasing of water volume in the rivers), and information for Disaster management that help to the damages evaluation and analysis of needs.

The system saves the data, produce dashboards and summary reports in real-time to make decisions and send alerts to the authorities in charge.

BENEFITS

• Availability of greater and better information in a short time, to make more effective decisions and coordination through a simple tool.  

• Possibility to compile information and feed back,

• Significant Reduction in the times of answer before the occurrence of Emergencies and Disasters because local Command Centers   with access to data summarized in dashboards.