3G is a game changer.
As I mentioned in my last post, new technologies are being introduced primarily by the mobile service providers. And for as much as I’m developing bits and pieces of software, my research is to introduce these technologies to the healthcare service providers (HSPs), to educate them on their use, and to [...]
Posts under ‘Africa’
Orange You Glad You Have 3G?
Entrepreneurship in Uganda
I’ve always thought that Africa was full of entrepreneurs – thousands of people eking out a living in container stores and markets selling goods a minimal profit, so they can support their families, send their kids to school, and, in general, survive.
Now, there’s clearly a difference between the startups of Silicon Valley that get venture [...]
Bringing ICTs and Solar to Rural Uganda
Claim Mobile Part Deux: We’ve set up netbooks and phones in three clinics so far (two bundled with solar power), and we’re looking to see how the introduction of these new technologies change the management of health care information and communication between the OBA health facilities and the OBA management agency, as well as the management of health information within the OBA health facility itself.
WE CARE Solar on PRI
One of WE CARE’s solar suitcases (www.wecaresolar.com) was recently
deployed by Catapult Design in the Minazi Health Post in Rwanda (
http://bit.ly/59j9G ), and PRI included some of the photos in an
article about the project.
On PRI’s The World
Solar medical system
http://www.pri.org/business/social-entrepreneurs/solar-energy-clinics1583.html
A self-contained, solar-powered system for operating rooms ensure clinics in the developing world aren’t impaired by blackouts.
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The Internet (or lack thereof) is driving me crazy!
Remember when we used to call the Internet the “World Wide Wait”? Sigh. The truth is that it isn’t really that Uganda as a whole doesn’t have access to the Internet but really that, depending on who your service provider is, and how much you are willing to pay, and where your geographic location is, [...]
WECARE goes to Africa Part III
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, [...]
A Socially-Responsible Amazon/Textbooks for MUST
My friend Ben pointed out Better World Books, an online bookstore that ships books worldwide for only $3.97! I did a bit of poking around, and realized that not only do they have crazy low shipping prices, but somehow their proceeds go to support literacy – specifically through World Fund, Books for Africa, Room to [...]
Netbook Mania
So one of the outcomes of my study last August is that admittedly.. people don’t want mobile phones for their health records, they want laptops. And these new netbooks – well they cost the same as these smartphones. But last August, the eeepcs had a battery life of 1.5 hours and only about [...]
EpiHandy and Wireless4D Talks
Sweden has better internet connectivity than East Africa.
I can’t talk much on my blog about what I’ve been doing in Uganda, besides the usual elevator pitch about my research (mobile-phone and web-based claims administration for treatment of STDs in Western Uganda). Mostly, I’ve been taking care of errands like paying my Uganda National Council of [...]
Don't forget Goma
So I’ve been perusing the paper NYTimes more often lately because I’m curious to see what makes it into print and what doesn’t. While there’s inches and inches dedicated to how much Obama’s personal life has changed now that he’s the president-elect (his barber has to come to him now) there is now no longer [...]
