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	<description>musings and meanderings of melissa</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Conflict in North Kivu: A Brief Summary</title>
		<link>http://ictdchick.com/blog/2008/11/14/conflict-in-north-kivu-a-brief-summary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Marian did a brief summary of what&#8217;s going on, with a couple of links and pointers to some things you can do to intervene.  In her words (with a couple of edits here and there):
 There is a crisis in Eastern Congo around Goma.  The rebel army, CNDP, lead by Nkunda advanced from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t forget Goma</title>
		<link>http://ictdchick.com/blog/2008/11/14/dont-forget-goma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been perusing the paper NYTimes more often lately because I&#8217;m curious to see what makes it into print and what doesn&#8217;t.  While there&#8217;s inches and inches dedicated to how much Obama&#8217;s personal life has changed now that he&#8217;s the president-elect (his barber has to come to him now) there is now no longer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk to your Senator about Conflict Coltan</title>
		<link>http://ictdchick.com/blog/2008/10/22/conflict-coltan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, Goma, DRC is the site of much mineral wealth - as well as much conflict, both over this wealth, and ethnic conflicts, including remnants of the Hutu/Tutsi hatred that resulted in the Rwandan genocide.
Just as diamonds are mined to finance these conflicts - coltan (used in the Sony PS2 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Hopper: Having an Global Impact as a Technical Woman</title>
		<link>http://ictdchick.com/blog/2008/10/01/grace-hopper-having-an-impact-as-a-global-woman/</link>
		<comments>http://ictdchick.com/blog/2008/10/01/grace-hopper-having-an-impact-as-a-global-woman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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&#8217;m wondering if there&#8217;s anyone else that I know that&#8217;s here?
I&#8217;ve just been going over the sessions, and it&#8217;s totally action [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home</title>
		<link>http://ictdchick.com/blog/2008/10/01/home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Melissa R. Ho    
 PhD Candidate,  UC Berkeley School of Information
Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions Research Group
Information, Communications Technology, and Development
Mobile Computing for Healthcare Information Management in Africa
Telecommunications Policy and Practice in Africa
I do information technology for healthcare in Africa. Actually, I&#8217;ve also recently dabbled in solar powered lighting for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Born In September: Creative Things to Do with One&#8217;s Birthday</title>
		<link>http://ictdchick.com/blog/2008/08/29/born-in-september-creative-things-to-do-with-ones-birthday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out http://borninseptember.org
Basically some guy decided that instead of getting birthday presents one year, he was going to ask people to donate $31/person so he could invest in wells in a bunch of villages in Africa.
The OBA project coordinator in the Mbarara office showed me this link (ostensibly to illustrate to me the power of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poynting Antennas and Wilson Antennas</title>
		<link>http://ictdchick.com/blog/2008/08/21/poynting-antennas-and-wilson-antennas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m posting this here mostly for my own future reference:
I&#8217;ve been using tri-band antennas from Wilson Antennas, but unfortunately they don&#8217;t actually work in the places where you need the antennas because, well they&#8217;re made for the US-based frequencies (e.g. 1900, rather than 1800)
Jeff Wishnie from Inveneo points out this antenna for boosting signal strength:
This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing for Power Cuts</title>
		<link>http://ictdchick.com/blog/2008/08/21/preparing-for-power-cuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pretty gadget heavy on this trip. In terms of power stuff I have:
1 solar flexible-panel charger (retail $99-ish) for 4 AA batteries2 solio solar chargers, for mobile phones and usb devices (can be charged via solar or grid power. I only have one adapterfor grid power) (retail about $80 each)1 inverter (retail about $40)1 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Secret Public Service to African Computers</title>
		<link>http://ictdchick.com/blog/2008/08/12/my-secret-public-service-to-african-computers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;m about to do this to my VMware installation of windows I thought it would be a good time to write a quick blog post on how to prevent your Windows computer from being infected by cds, dvds, and usb drives.
Of course this means that when you pop in a cd/dvd, it will no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Having an Impact as a Global Woman</title>
		<link>http://ictdchick.com/blog/2008/08/07/having-an-impact-as-a-global-woman/</link>
		<comments>http://ictdchick.com/blog/2008/08/07/having-an-impact-as-a-global-woman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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