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SIPA Workshop Wins USAID Competition
UNICEF and six students from SIPA's workshop in development practice won first place in USAID’s “Development 2.0 Challenge.” The award recognizes an innovative system using mobile phones and text messages to monitor children's health in Malawi. The students participating in the workshop are Sean Blaschke, Kirsten Bokenkamp, Roxana Cosmaciuc, Mari Denby, Beza Hailu and Ray Short. Their system empowers users to track child malnutrition trends accurately and in real time, providing a means of intervention into rapidly unfolding food and nutrition crises.
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