The aim of the three-year project is to explore the potential of mobile technologies to improve the management of chronic diseases in rural areas of the UK and India.

Two common chronic conditions, diabetes and depression, will be the focus of the developed platform.

The initiative is part of a £7 million package of projects called Bridging the Urban and Rural Divide (BURD), which is being funded in the UK by the Research Councils UK (RCUK).

TRUMP (Trusted Mobile Platform for the Self-Management of Chronic Illness in Rural Areas) is a three-year "m-health" project being led in the UK by Professor Peter Edwards of the University of Aberdeen. In the UK the project involves the universities of Aberdeen, Newcastle, City, Lancaster and Northumbria.

Indian partners in TRUMP are the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (India lead), International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, All India Institute of Medical Sciences and the National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, both in New Delhi.