“In just six years, DKT Ethiopia has transformed its system for tracking contraceptive sales from pins and pencils to computers and satellites and, in the process, helped create a family planning and HIV prevention success story in the Horn of Africa,” David Olson, a global development communications consultant, writes in the Huffington Post’s “Global Motherhood” blog. Noting DKT Ethiopia is an affiliate of DKT International, Olson describes how a Geographic Information System (GIS) has helped the organization “display and analyze sales, finance and inventory information geographically and, particularly, to plot every one of its 30,000+ direct and indirect sales outlets.” He adds, GIS helps DKT in making “a [significant] contribution to Ethiopia’s family planning and HIV prevention efforts is by keeping a close watch on its sales performance and tweaking its efforts, where necessary, to maximize performance.” Olson notes DKT currently is studying “the efficiency, feasibility, cost-effectiveness and sustainability of equipping its sales team with smart phones to allow them to enter information on new sales outlets directly into the system, eliminating a huge amount of work for headquarters staff” (4/24).