The National Telehealth Center (NThC), committed to its mandate to enhance access to health care through information and communications technology, will launch its first Geolocate4Health contest in UP Manila on February 2010. Contest period is from February 1, 2010 to May 31, 2010 and is open to all bona fide UP Manila students.
Using Google Map Maker, all participants will be tasked to pin and outline health care facilities (e.g. government hospitals, rural health units, lying-in centers, barangay health stations) inany areas in the Philippines. Monthly top contributors will be awarded with P5,000.00 each while an iPod Touch awaits the grand prize winner.
Interested individuals are required to register here. For contest mechanics, please proceed by following this link.
For more information, you may call the National Telehealth Center at (02)525-6501 and look for Ms. Tina Onzaga.
