Laura’s back in Africa for her third trip to Kofan Gayan Memorial Hospital, a rural municipal hospital (district hospital) in northern Nigeria, where she’s provisioning solar power to support lighting (led headlamps and DC led floodlamps) and communications (icom walkie talkies) for a maternity ward. While she’s there, she’s emailing periodic updates about her progress, [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2009’
They Fixed the Kindle!
Omigoodness. I managed to get my hands on a Kindle 2 this past weekend and aside from the fact that the Whispernet (Amazon’s renaming of Sprint’s EVDO Internet service) is totally inaccessible for me, and it would be an absolute pain for me to actually put any books on the device, I really really really [...]
Orange Telecom Launches in Uganda
One of the more quiet headlines of the week in Kampala is the launch of a new mobile service provider – the France Telecom owned Orange Telecom. Reactions are mixed but hopeful. Orange is the 5th major operator here, following South African owned MTN, Zain (pakistani-owned? Formerly known as Celtel), Uganda Telecom/Mango, and Warid (also [...]
First HealthyBaby Birth
As I have been pre-occupied with writing lectures for my class, and setting up my research, my collaborating partners at Marie Stopes International Uganda have been busy launching a new phase of the output-based aid voucher program, financing in-hospital delivery of babies, in addition to the in-clinic treatment of sexually-transmitted infections (STIs). The new program, [...]
The Drawbacks of Having the Perfect Noise Isolating Headset in Uganda
I love my headset. I got them at Costco a few years back after months of research, and hours of pestering Joe Hall and various other friends on what kind I should get, whether noise-canceling technology was actually worth the money, etc etc etc. The fact was that I spent a lot of time on [...]
