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 [...]
Event: Investing in Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries 11/14 6pm
Investing in Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries — A Talk Sponsored by The Blum Center
Wednesday, November 14th
6:00pm
Hearst Memorial Mining Building, Room 290, UC Berkeley Campus
Please join The Blum Center for Developing Economies for a talk on:
“Creating an online investment platform for entrepreneurs in developing countries”
Thierry Sanders and Koen Wasmus, Directors of the Business in Development BiD [...]
Craig Newmark Speaks: we listen
Craig Newmark of Craiglist recently gave a talk as part of my Social Entrepreneurship class. I’ve attached my notes from the talk here (Notes: Craig Newmark on Craigslist), and you can listen to the audio on the ischool podcast.
Craig, as a self-proclaimed-and-proud-of-it geek is a fun speaker with lots of interesting perspectives. As [...]
Event: Blum Student Symposium – Smartphones and Healthcare Information Management in Uganda
Hi all,
I gave a presentation at the Blum Student Symposium last Thursday.
For anyone that’s interested, the slides (65MB) are downloadable here:
http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/~melissa/blum-symposium-oct-04-07.ppt
The talk was about current health information practices in rural health clinics in Uganda, how PDAs have been integrated into a particular district, and our projections for what we’re working on now.
The future symposiums look [...]
Event: Goma, Congo Report on work with HEAL Africa
Hi all,
What: Goma Adult Ministries/Global Strategies Teams Report
When: October 14, 12:15–2:15 PM or 6:30–8:30 PM
Where: First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, G202
On Sunday, October 14th, the Goma Missions Teams (including mine) will be giving a report on the Congo, what we did, and what we’re planning to do. We’ll have two sessions, one at 12.15pm (following [...]
