In this paper we present opportunities and challenges to meet the worldwide challenge of diabetes. Diabetes has devastating long term complications that cause very great personal suffering and social costs locally and globally. The prevalence of diabetes is increasing globally as an epidemic and affects 415 million people today which is expected to increase to 642 million is 2040. Int this paper we explore the possibilities to join an Indo-Swedish collaboration. we present a research framework for mobile applicaiton development between Sweden and India. the scientific frameowrk is elaborated and this paper ends with speciifc challenges and future work.