On June 14, 2012, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the mHealth Alliance announced the creation of mPowering Frontline Health Workers, an innovative public-private partnership designed to improve child health by accelerating the use of mobile technology by millions of health workers around the world.  

Over the next three years, mPowering Frontline Health Workers will: 1) crowdsource innovative multi‐media health content; 2) create an online library of downloadable digital health content that can be accessed by organizations in developing countries; 3) produce a digital dictionary to enable integration and standardized reporting across multiple mHealth applications; 4) accelerate the sustainable expansion of mHealth for frontline health workers in at least three developing countries; 5) rigorously evaluate partnership impact, and 6) share experiences through a virtual global learning platform.

Read the full press release at the mHealth Alliance website.