The project
will conceive, develop and test the implementation of a system for stock
management of medical supplies in remote dispensaries in Lebanon using
smartphones also offline or any other devices with Internet connection. The
final phase of the project will allow transferring the knowhow and the
experience acquired in Lebanon to other French-speaking countries. It will
focus on promoting local entrepreneurship to make system sustainable while empowering
the local communities and promoting the regional economy.
A Swiss-Lebanese partnership
The project
is a collaboration between three schools of the HES-SO (the School of
Management, the College of Engineering and the School of Health in Fribourg)
and the Saint-Joseph University in Beirut. It received funding from two
programmes of the HES-SO, “Entrepreneuriat et technologies appropriées” and the
Leading House MENA.
Important event in Beirut
A conference and three workshops were organised in Beirut in December 2018, co-funded by the Embassy of Switzerland in Lebanon and with the patronage of the Ministry of Social Affairs of Lebanon. At the end of these sessions, a new international working network has been founded for the MENA region and a first strategy for the replication of the SMSer experience in other countries has been defined. The next meeting of the network will be held in June 2019 at Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco.