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This is the record of our work in Ghana during the winter of 2005/6 for
the TIER Group, where we are deploying long
distance wireless backhaul links connecting several universities
around Accra, and investigating the potential applications for
technology to impact health delivery services
for the poor.
Ghana is a country in West Africa, officially designated by the UN as one of the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC), and thus eligble for the debt relief negotiated at the G8 Summit in summer 2005. Although Accra has broadband access, much of Ghana is still unreachable by Internet, and the country suffers from poverty and lack of information access in general. Links About the TIER Group Melissa Ho is a graduate student in the The UC Berkeley School of Information, where she is advised by Profs. AnnaLee Saxenian and John Chuang on the use and design of information technologies for developing regions. Prof. Coye Cheshire also informed the social science aspects of this work, providing advice and feedback on qualitative methodologies. RJ Honicky is a graduate student in the UC Berkeley EECS Department, where he is advised by Dean Rich Newton and Prof. Eric Brewer. His research focuses on the use of carbon monoxide sensors on cell phones for environmenal data collection in developing regions. Matt Podolsky is a staff researcher and personal hero for the TIER Group. The Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions (TIER) is a research group out of UC Berkeley's CS Department, led by Profs. Eric Brewer and John Canny. It serves as the technical sub-project of Information and Communications Technology for Billions (ICT4B), a cross-disciplinary and inter-departmental effort funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The group also has several outside specialists, including Kevin Fall, Alan Mainwaring, and Paul Aoki from Intel Research Berkeley.
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