| dc.description.abstract | Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is present in many
countries, including Tanzania. Gairo is among the districts that
frequently face FMD. This study found that the current
mechanism for communicating FMD in Gairo district suffers
from a long chain of information flow that causes delay and
insufficient information for FMD control. Therefore, this study
aimed to explore the implementation of an information system
named "Monitoring System for Transboundary Foot and Mouth
Disease," developed purposely to provide a standard platform for
communicating FMD between livestock keepers and other
stakeholders in the district. The system enables timely sharing of
FMD events such as outbreaks, precaution measures, clinical
signs, and negative impacts using Short Message Services (SMS),
Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), and Voice
Calls (robo-calls) through the mobile phones. Also, livestock
keepers may report FMD outbreaks direct to the system using
feature phones. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences
(SPSS) was used to analyze data and Microsoft Visio was used for
drawing the system architecture and information flow diagram.
Finally, the system was implemented using PHP hypertext
processor, JQuery, HTML, JSON, JavaScript, MySQL, and Apache webserver | en_US |
