Hundreds of kilometres west, health workers are using an AI app called Shishu Maapan. It estimates a newborn’s weight and other measurements from a short video taken on a smartphone, replacing bulky equipment traditionally carried from home to home.
“At first, we wondered how weight could be captured on a mobile,” said Jyotsna Patel, an ASHA worker who has worked in Kachigam village in Daman district for 14 years.
After training and practice, she said, workers were able to use the app routinely and track whether babies were gaining or losing weight.
What connects these two instances in rural India is not the technology itself, but the…
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