About me:Mohini is an adventurista, who loves backpacking, learning languages, ethnic outfits and sharing her grandmother's Indian recipes with hosts she meets along the way. She has lived in Germany and Guatemala, and speaks French, Spanish, some German and Hindi. Mohini is interested evaluating the use of mobile tech to support and strengthen health systems in Latin America and South Asia. In 2010, she helped MobileActive.org to build a research directory for practitioners, and NGOs looking to learn more about applying mobile phones for social change. After New York, she headed south to support TulaSalud, a Guatemalan NGO using mobile data collection tools to monitor diseases in the remote highlands of Altaverapaz. Now, Mohini is working in India as a Field Fellow with Dimagi, deploying CommCare in partnership with several health NGOs around the country. Mohini studied Biochemistry and Health Studies at McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario. She has worked for Health Canada's risk management and regulatory affairs directorate for natural health products; and University of Leipzig and Helmholtz Research Center in Leipzig, Germany.

Venture DescriptionWe deliver open and innovative technology to help underserved communities everywhere. It’s no secret that the distribution of wealth in the world is highly unequal. Billions around the globe do not have access to basic food, health, and education resources that most people in the developed world take for granted. At Dimagi, we believe that many of the world’s problems can be assuaged with low-cost technological solutions. Whether it is incentivizing people in Bangladesh to access educational materials in return for free airtime - or the patient in Zambia that can carry her entire medical history in her pocket – our goal is to utilize modern technology to improve overall quality of life around the globe. The developing world stands to massively benefit from the technological advances that have been made in recent years, and Dimagi wants to bring those benefits to fruition.