Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center are investigating new ways to use old mobile phone technology to help first responders in developing countries reduce the time it takes to transport traffic accident victims to hospitals. Kim and Nwariaku will spend the next two years developing ways to leverage existing, low-cost mobile phone technology in Lagos, Nigeria, to help roadway accident victims. The first is to improve the accuracy of accident locations by integrating Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) technology with data scraping applied to social media messages. “Most Nigerians are still using old-fashioned flip phones with USSD technology,” said Dr. Latifur Khan, co-collaborator and professor of computer science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at UT Dallas. “Our goal is to see if we can pair the USSD technology that they have with social-media mining algorithms to enhance location accuracy,” Khan said.