Mo-Buzz Dengue

Integrates crowdsourcing and mobile health education to protect you from dengue

Dengue is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects millions of people around the world, and especially so in Asia. So far, dengue prevention has relied on traditional strategies that are largely reactive and use outdated modes of communication. We believe that the power of mobile phones and the Internet, if used in an innovative way, can go a long way in helping people and public health authorities combat the dengue menace.

Mo-Buzz* Dengue is a cutting-edge, integrated mobile phone and web-based system designed to help you protect yourself from dengue. The system combines the power of advanced geospatial mapping with crowdsourcing technology and health education in a simple, easy-to-use manner.

With Mo-Buzz Dengue you can now:

1. Use hotspot maps to keep track of those parts of your city that are most affected by dengue. You can use this information to take preventive steps to protect yourself from mosquitoes if you are living in, or traveling to these areas.

2. Complain dengue breeding sites to the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) using simple forms on your mobile app that are automatically geo-tagged. This will help the CMC to monitor how dengue is spreading in real-time and alert them to take necessary steps quickly.

3. Learn more about dengue, how it is transmitted, how many people it affects, and how to protect yourself, using our graphics-based dengue education module.

*Mo-Buzz Dengue is a joint project between Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Colombo Municipal Council (CMC), Mobitel and University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC).