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Partnership aims to foster mobile health development

17th June 2016

By: Anine Kilian

Contributing Editor Online

  

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Mobile solutions laboratory mLab Southern Africa has joined forces with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to stimulate more open innovation and development within the mobile health (mHealth) and wellness sector.

The partnership includes a number of mHealth and wellness programmes to help facilitate knowledge transfer, ideation, development and commercialisation by local experts, students, startups and larger industry partners.

This will include the July launch of the first organisation that would facilitate co-creation projects between university students and companies, known as Demola.

Demola, which will kick off in Cape Town with a dedicated mHealth and wellness stream, will bring together local and international industry; small, medium-sized and microenterprises; and multidisciplinary students to develop solutions for real mHealth and wellness challenges.

In addition, mLab CEO Derrick Kotze highlights wearable devices as one of the opportunities in mHealth and wellness that could include data and analytical tools, virtual reality, robotics, mobile applications and fashion, offering local innovators and startups a gap to become market leaders in a new economic sector.

“The wearable medical device market, while relatively new, created over $3-billion in market value last year at a compound yearly growth rate of 17.8% in the next four years,” Kotze says, adding that mLab’s vision with this partnership is to accelerate South Africa’s participation in this “rare window of economic opportunity”.

Edited by Samantha Herbst
Creamer Media Deputy Editor

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