Table 7.

Comparisons of estimated annual costs of electronic surveillance with National Malaria Program

	Economic cost of electronic surveillance	Estimated annual costs national malaria strategic plan	Estimated cost of surveillance in NMSP	% Electronic surveillance to annual program budget	% Electronic surveillance to estimated surveillance budget
Cambodia	$263,224 (14 out of 25 provinces)	$50,354,592	N/A	0.5	N/A
Lao PDR	$152,805 (5 out of 17 provinces)	$14,557,696	$2,260,000	1.0	6.8%
Myanmar	$1,310,912 (entire country)	$92,600,000	$6,400,000	1.5	20.5%

It should be noted that Myanmar used a different model of electronic surveillance (tablets with monthly reporting by NGO workers) than in Cambodia and Lao PDR where smartphones were used