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 [...]
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Grace Hopper: Having an Global Impact as a Technical Woman
I’m here at in Keystone, Colorado to present on a panel with Elizabeth Basha, Revi Sterling, and Ruth Anderson about how to get involved with information technology and international development. Given the oh-so-appropo theme, I’m wondering if there’s anyone else that I know that’s here?
I’ve just been going over the sessions, and it’s totally action [...]
Having an Impact as a Global Woman
Elizabeth Basha, Ruth Anderson, Revi Sterling, and I are presenting an ICTD panel at the Grace Hopper Celebration in Colorado on October 4-5, 2008. For those of you interested in pre-conference participation, we just set up a blog/resource website so everyone can talk about what we directions we might want to take during the panel [...]
ICTD2008/2009 – Argentina or Qatar?
So (one of my paper reviewers recently noted that one should never start a sentence with “so”) , at the end of the banquet on the first night of ICTD2007, Kentaro (the ictd superman) introduced the two bids for the next ICTD conference. The two candidates? Buenos Aires (aka tourist and salsa heaven) [...]
ICTD2007 Notes from Bangalore
But unfortunately not Live! from Bangalore… ICTD2007 (in my opinion) was a smashing success! (With of course very little smashing, except for that errant glass hiding under a chair…). The conference was held at the Ashoka Hotel in Bangalore, India on Saturday and Sunday December 15-16, 2007. Before I digress into my overall [...]
ICTD 2007 Call for Participation
This is where I’ll be come December 15th. I unfortunately didn’t submit a paper this time, since I was in four different countries (not counting layovers) in the week before the deadline. But! a lot of my colleagues have papers that got in, and it promises to be a good chance to talk to other [...]
IUI '08: Workshop on IUI4DR – Intelligent User Interfaces for Developing Regions
Call For Papers:
Workshop on IUI4DR – Intelligent User Interfaces for Developing Regions
(in conjunction with IUI ‘08)
Canary Islands, Spain
January 13, 2008
http://research.ihost.com/iui4dr
Organisers:
* Sheetal K. Agarwal, IBM Research, India
* John Canny, UC Berkeley, USA
* Apala Lahiri Chavan, Human Factors International, India
* Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research, India
Advisory Committee:
* Michelle X Zhou, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA
Program Committee:
* [...]
AITEC ICT for Healthcare in Africa Conference: Nairobi, 11-13 September 2007
The announcement is here.
From the call for proposals:
AITEC Africa, Africa’s leading ICT event organiser, is inviting presentation proposals for the first ever ICT for Healthcare in Africa Conference, to be held in Nairobi over 11-13 September 2007.
Delivery of healthcare services remains rudimentary in most of Africa. To achieve any of the [...]
Unite for Sight Call for Abstracts
http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/abstracts.php
Unite for Sight is a health conference held every April. It’s an interesting gathering of people from a large number of backgrounds doing international health and development, and although it has a focus on eyecare, it incorporates numerous tracks and presentations on other aspects of International Health as well. Last year, Sonesh did a presentation [...]
African Healthcare Summit – GPS Foundation, DC
I recently (April 29, 2007) gave a talk to the Ghana Physicians and Surgeons Foundation (a group of Ghanaian doctors practicing in the US) at their annual African Healthcare Summit.
My slides are downloadable here (ppt, 10.5 MB). I gave an introduction to TIER, talking about our work using long distance WiFi (WiLDnet) for the Aravind [...]
