As a follow-up to my missions trip to Goma this past summer my teammates and I did a two hour presentation for our church, talking about what we did, and what we’re planning to do. Normally I’m pretty skeptical about missions. I mean really – what depth is there to going out to beaches over [...]
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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 [...]
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, [...]
Meraki Routers in the Congo…
I’m terrible with the cross-posting.. For those of you interested in my work in Goma, Congo, check out my team blog: http://gomateam.blogspot.com Also, for a more recent technical update, you can check out Eric Nguyen’s blog here: http://mindtangle.net/2007/09/08/work-update/ For those of you interested in learning more about HEAL Africa, PBS is showing a documentary called [...]
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 Millennium [...]
Ethiopia's High Speed Hospitals (BBC News)
The Indian government is collaborating with a number of African countries on a pan-Africa e-Health network, aiming to encourage collaboration between Indian and African doctors over VSAT. Ghana’s included in this program, I believe starting with the Komfo Anoyke Teaching Hospital in Kumasi. The project is funded for 5 years – I’m not sure what [...]
