We launched the Global Health Delivery website, GHDonline.org, at the end of June. We started the project last summer with a long list of great ideas and a bit of funding. I interviewed dozens of doctors, midwives, social workers and other people working in health in Rwanda, Zambia, and other African countries to find out what these people really need. They want to be able to:
1. find good quality information fast (vsat connections and spotty power means you have to work fast!)
2. ask questions and get answers from people with real experience working in the field
3. exchange their own experience and share what they know
We listened to what people said and built GHDonline, a community-based website with a killer search engine and a super easy UI. We've been in stealth mode as we take usability feedback to push improved versions of the site every few days. But I'm off to the International AIDS conference in Mexico City to show off the website to hundreds of people next week.