musings and meanderings of a multi-disciplinary researcher learning about information technology use in developing regions
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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UN-backed talks in DR Congo making slow progress, envoy tells Security Council 15 Jan 2009, UN News Centre
Tensions between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda are beginning to thaw as on-going peace talks, aimed at ending fighting in the east of the DRC between the Government and the main rebel militia [...]
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 [...]
For those of you that think that I should post stuff about me on my blog – the my school just posted a piece about an award I just got on the website. It’s really cool – the Foundations for Change: Thomas I Yamashita Prize supports young activists that make social change happen. If [...]
NPR’s All Things Considered recently interviewed Nicholas de Torrente of Doctors Without Borders (the American branch of Medicins Sans Frontiers) about their recently published their top ten under-reported humanitarian stories of 2007:
Displaced Fleeing War in Somalia Face Humanitarian Crisis
Political and Economic Turmoil Sparks Health-Care Crisis in Zimbabwe
Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Spreads As New Drugs Go Untested
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Fulfillment Elusive for Young Altruists In the Crowded Field of Public Interest
By Ian Shapira
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 2, 2007; Page A01
A friend pointed out this article for me. I have to wonder that if in our efforts to look at ICTD academically if we’re going to create another glut of idealists with nowhere [...]
An interesting (although not altogether informative) article on how handheld GPS devices are being used by a logging community in Congo-Brazzaville…
Logging with care in Congo
By John James
BBC News, Congo-Brazzaville
The Mbendjele people of Congo-Brazzaville are using the latest satellite mapping technology to stake claim to a rainforest, two-thirds of which may be gone in [...]
My good friends at the University of Waterloo Tetherless Computing Research Group just released KioskNet, an open-sourced, live-cd’d solution for setting up sneakernet-style terminal server kiosks.
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One of the things that stands out in my travels in Africa (more so in Ghana than Uganda) is the prevalence of the charismatic pentacostal megachurches. They have their pluses and minuses (Phillipians 1:17-18 comes to mind), and I have some hesitations about the “prosperity gospel” as well as how much they seem to [...]
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 [...]
