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When Artificial Intelligence Strengthens Primary Healthcare: New Hope for the Future of Maternal and Child Health
Figure 1. From Paper to Intelligence: OCR & Predictive in Action - Summit’s community health promoters demonstrates the user interface of the OCR and predictive tools The KONEKSI Project AI-in-Healthcare Program has been underway since 2024 as part of a collaborative effort to strengthen primary healthcare services in Indonesia through the use of artificial intelligence. This initiative secured competitive funding and received “Flourish Funding” from the Australian Government
Mar 3


PRESS RELEASE: Celebrating 25 Years of SUMMIT and the Grand Launching of SMART MMS “From Lombok to the World: SMART MMS for Maternal and Child Health and Intelligence”
Mataram, August 9, 2025 The Summit Institute for Development (SID) celebrated the 25th Anniversary of the SUMMIT Program, in conjunction with the official launch of SMART-MMS, an innovative program designed to strengthen monitoring and adherence to multiple micronutrient supplementation (MMS) for pregnant women in Lombok, Indonesia. The SUMMIT Program (Supplementation with Multiple Micronutrients Intervention Trial), implemented in Lombok from 2000-2004, was a large-scale stu
Aug 20, 2025


KONEKSI Learning Visit: Collaboration SID, CSIRO, BRIN, and UNRAM Presents AI-Based Digital Health Innovation
A KONEKSI visit to the Summit Institute for Development (SID) was successfully held on August 7–8, 2025. This KONEKSI Learning Visit aimed to gain an in-depth understanding of SID's research project, titled “Expanding agenda of digitizing integrated digital primary healthcare using AI deep learning neural networks to predict compliance behavior in a community and healthcare delivery performance.” The visit also served as a valuable opportunity to reflect on partnership dyna
Aug 15, 2025


KONEKSI (Australia-Indonesia Knowledge Partnership Platform) Bootcamp 2 and The 20th Indonesian Regional Science Association (IRSA) International Conference in Semarang
Semarang, July 12-15, 2025 – As a continuation of the bootcamp held by KONEKSI-Partnership in collaboration with the Indonesia Project - Australian National University (ANU) in Bali from May 3-5, 2025, participants attended Bootcamp 2 concurrently with the 20th Indonesian Regional Science Association (IRSA) International Conference in Semarang. Before the bootcamp officially started, participants engaged in online sessions with mentors from the Indonesia Project - Australian
Jul 29, 2025


Garut Towards a Digitally-Enabled District: Director General of Primary and Community Health Review the Utilization of the Local Area Monitoring Dashboard (PWS) for National Scale-Up
Garut, July 4, 2025 – The Director General of Primary and Community Health, dr. Maria Endang Sumiwi , together with the core team of the Ministry of Health's Digital Health Transformation, conducted a working visit to Garut Regency to observe firsthand the implementation of the Digitally Enabled District (DED) program. This initiative has produced a national model for the Local Area Monitoring Dashboard (PWS) and demonstrated the use of data for action to strengthen the Inte
Jul 10, 2025


Community based nutrition and public health intervention: Lesson Learnt from The Field
Summit Institute for Development with students in Faculty of Medicine Universitas Mataram Mataram, May 6th, 2025 – The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Mataram held a special guest lecture featuring Summit Institute for Development (SID), Rachmi Mufida and Nurmalita Hartiyana Kusuma Wardani. The event was attended by more than 250 second-semester medical students, who enthusiastically listened to the presentation on the role of nutrition in public health and the vari
May 14, 2025
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