Indian Government To Use Mobile Technology To Track Rural Toilet Use

Reuters: India to track toilet use with tablets
“Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is launching a nationwide online program to check whether people are using toilets as part of his cleanliness drive. [Beginning in January], officials will head out with mobile phones, tablets, and iPads to report on whether toilets are being used in rural India, with results uploaded onto a website in real time…” (MacAskill, 12/31).

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