Laying the Foundation for Combating Malnutrition in India: The importance of
balanced nutrition and health An initiative of HealthPhoneTM, conducted under
the aegis of Indian Academy of Pediatrics, in partnership with the Ministry of
Women and Child Development, UNICEF, Aamir Khan and the support from Vodafone.

World’s Largest Programme to Battle
Malnutrition amongst Mothers and Children

Collaborating with Wild Project Med Foundation and Healthphone,
Internet-in-a-Box has developed an offline distribution system for medical and
healthcare content geared specifically to South Asia. Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB)
is a complete single-board computer with an in-built WI-Fi hotspot that allows
for easy distribution of information in places where access to the Internet is
limited, controlled, not affordable or simply unavailable. Within a range of 50
to 100 meters, up to 32 people can connect to the device with a mobile phone or
computer to access and download its content, free of any cost. It also
functions as a mini app store in that those connected to it can download and
install a number of offline apps. The 32 Gb microSD card (included contains
over 1,000 HealthPhone healthcare and nutrition videos across 22 Indian
languages, 47 HealthPhone mobile apps across 18 Indian languages, all of
Wikipedia Medical Encyclopaedia in English and Farsi, full Wikipedia in 23
Indian languages, The Global Emergency Medicine Wiki, and Children for Health’s
100 Health Messages in 5 Indian languages.) Medical and Health
Internet-in-a-Box is available for the costs of the hardware, taxes and
shipping (₹1,999./US$30.).