May 2011 - change - Mailing Lists

Lahiru's tool for land mine removal
by Gaetano Borriello 09 May '11

09 May '11

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/05/targeting-leftover-land-mines/

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odk in use on the international space station
by Yaw Anokwa 09 May '11

09 May '11

this is too amazing not to share more broadly. turns out a group in kenya is monitoring a 4000 phone odk deployment from the international space station. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Subject: Carbon For Water Collects 40000 Forms per Day with ODK To: opendatakit(a)googlegroups.com Carbon For Water (@CarbonForWater) is using 4000 ODK-enabled phones to collect 40,000 forms per day. The data is used to support Vestergaard Frandsen‘s campaign to distribute LifeStraw Family water treatment units to 4 million people in Western Kenya. Evan Thomas of Manna Energy writes, “ODK has enabled us to easily train 4,000 community health workers in how to use the smartphone application, and we are now getting records in at a rate of about 50 per minute [about 40,000/day]. We expect a total of over one million records by June 1, 2011. This project has broad reach. We even have an astronaut on the International Space Station who is monitoring the project via the ODK database.” We just found out Carbon For Water a few days ago, and we’ll be sharing more about their work over the next few weeks. In the meanwhile, we’d love to hear about how you use ODK (especially if you use it in space). Share your story at contact(a)opendatakit.org. http://opendatakit.org/2011/05/carbon-for-water-collects-40000-forms-per-da…

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global health dept looking for conference planning help
by Yaw Anokwa 06 May '11

06 May '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Theresa Stone <theresa(a)monsterinvasion.com> Date: Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:15 Hello, I am currently a Masters of Communication in Digital Media Grad student (MCDM). I am hoping to recruit some students and/or faculty who be interested in helping with the planning of the Western Regional Health Conference. We as communications and technology professionals have an opportunity to create a portion of the Health Conference that would be dedicated to how Communication and Technology can create social change and specifically, how that change can impact global health. Here is the exact description from the Global Health Department… The 9th Annual Western Regional International Health Conference is looking for students with a background in Communications and/or Technology to participate on their student planning committee. This high-profile event occurs in collaboration with many other institutions across the region. The student committee is primary responsible for planning this large-scale conference from start to finish. The conference has attracted 750-1000 people in past years. This year's theme is: At a Crossroads: Setting a New Agenda for Global Health. There are 6 tracks in this conference, one of them being Navigating the Course: Communications and Technology. The student planning committee will primarily work in subcommittees and we will meet every other week on Mondays for an hour. In summer we will move our meetings to once a month, and resume meetings twice a month until the conference occurs in April 2012. Students will have the opportunity to work closely with advising faculty and work with other students from all over campus. Each track has at least one advising faculty to consult with regarding session ideas and speaker contacts. The goal is to meet every other week on Monday nights to form our segment for the event (only once a month over the summer). Even if you can't make it to every meeting I would love to get your contributions and involvment in helping develop our agenda for the event and help recommend speakers/topics. The next meeting is Monday, May 9 (5:30-6:45) @ Harris Hydraulics Building, Room 322 (All the way down main hall, to your right) 1705 N.E. Pacific St. Please let me know if you are interested or would like additional information. Thanks! Theresa Stone monster design, inc. monsterinvasion.com 425.301.0732 ring 425.307.3870 fax testone06 skype think big.

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Kentaro Toyama on Myths of ICT4D. Today @ 4pm, Downtown
by Yaw Anokwa 06 May '11

06 May '11

this is short notice, but kentaro toyama (of http://ict4djester.org/ fame) is giving a talk today downtown. kentaro is a great speaker and always has insightful things to say about technology and global development. ------- Session 1: Myths of Technology for International Development Speaker: Kentaro Toyama (University of California, Berkeley) The past decade has seen incredible interest in applying information and communication technologies for international development, an endeavor often abbreviated "ICT4D." Can mobile phones be used to improve rural healthcare? How do you design user interfaces for an illiterate migrant worker? What value is technology to a farmer earning $1 a day? Interventionist ICT4D projects seek to answer these kinds of questions, but the excitement has also generated a lot of hype about the power of technology to solve the deep problems of poverty. In this talk, I will (1) present several myths of ICT4D that persist despite evidence to the contrary, (2) offer a theory of "technology as amplifier" which explains the gap between rhetoric and reality, and (3) provide recommendations for successful ICT4D interventions. My hope is to temper the brash claims of technology with realism about its true potential. When: May 6th, 2011 4:00pm - 5:30pm Where: Global Washington Office 500 Union St., Suite 801 Seattle, WA 98101 Price: FREE for Global Washington members (members, contact admin(a)globalwa.org for a discount code) $15 for non-members https://app.etapestry.com/cart/GlobalWashington/default/item.php?ref=4143.0…

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Fwd: Internships and volunteer fun - local non-profit working in Mexico
by Yaw Anokwa 04 May '11

04 May '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 17:31:03 -0700 From: Rick McKenney <rickm(a)waterforhumans.org> To: April Atwood <atwooda(a)seattleu.edu>, Héctor Sáez <hsaez17(a)hotmail.com>, Susan Bolton <sbolton(a)u.washington.edu>, Geraldine Rodriguez <gerirod(a)u.washington.edu> Subject: Internships and volunteer fun Hi. As usual we are looking for volunteers and interns to help keep our project alive and kicking. I would like you to help us find some interested folks to support us. Please find attached several job descriptions. I would appreciate it if you could distribute them to folks you know who might be interested in helping a great cause. Thank You, Rick McKenney MBA Executive Director Water for Humans 206 452 3503(W) Skype: rick_mckenney www.WaterForHumans.org "Change the dream and our actions will follow it" Lynne Twist

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Jason Hahn on the Grameen Foundation’s Mobile Programs
by Eleanor O'Rourke 03 May '11

03 May '11

This Thursday at Change we will be hosting a talk by Jason Hahn, a Business Development Manager at the Grameen Foundation<http://www.grameenfoundation.org/>. Jason works to identify new opportunities to use Grameen’s products on behalf of the poor and poorest and support programs in the field. On Thursday, Jason will be speaking about Grameen’s current mobile programs to support agriculture, health, and financial services, with a particular focus on agricultural work. An overview of the Grameen Foundation is given below, but also check out the Grameen AppLabblog<http://www.grameenfoundation.applab.org/applab-blog/> for more information about projects! *At Grameen Foundation our goal is simple – we want to see poor people, especially the poorest and those living in harder to reach areas, have access to microfinance and technology and as a result of access to these services, move themselves out of poverty. We envision a world where the poor have broken the generational chain of poverty and lead lives of respect, dignity and opportunity. Grameen Foundation, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, DC with an office in Seattle, Washington, was founded in 1997 by friends of Grameen Bank to help microfinance practitioners and spread the Grameen philosophy worldwide. We share the ideas of 2006 Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus. Grameen Foundation and Grameen Bank are independent organizations and have no financial or institutional links.* Please join us for sandwiches, and to learn more about the Grameen Foundation’s mobile programs! *What:* Jason Hahn on the Grameen Foundation’s Mobile Programs *When:* Thursday, May 5th at noon *Where:* Paul Allen Center, Room 203

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"Healthcare is Going Digital: What it Means for You" Invitation to June 2 NYAM event
by Lassana Magassa 03 May '11

03 May '11

FYI Begin forwarded message: Subject: [metro-l] Invitation to June 2 NYAM event "Healthcare is Going Digital: What it Means for You": attend via webinar remotely or in person Sponsored by: The NYAM Special Interest Group on Informatics Location: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029 ________________________________ NYAM's Special Interest Group on Informatics presents an evening for both health care professionals and the public on developments in Health IT, especially as they relate to patients having their own electronic health record. Lygeia Ricciardi will give an overview of plans of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology with particular concern for how they affect individuals, whether healthy or sick. Patricia Brennan will give a high-level overview of how patients can or will interact with the health system and their own health information in the world of patient portals and personal health records. Panel: Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD Lillian L. Moehlman Bascom Professor, School of Nursing and College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison Lygeia Ricciardi Senior Policy Advisor for Consumer e-Health Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT US Department of Health and Human Services For more information, contact Rick Ziehler at rziehler(a)nyam.org<mailto:rziehler@nyam.org> Registration Information Cost: Free Register><http://support.nyam.org/site/Calendar?id=101321&view=Detail> at www.nyam.org/events<http://www.nyam.org/events> to attend in person. Webinar Registration This event will also be available via webinar. To register to participate remotely, click here<https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/791644598>. [cid:image001.jpg@01CC098D.50CD6AE0]Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD is the Lillian L. Moehlman Bascom Professor, School of Nursing and College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. Currently Theme Leader of the Living Environments Laboratory at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Dr. Brennan received a Masters of Science in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Following seven years of clinical practice in critical care nursing and psychiatric nursing, Dr. Brennan held several academic positions. She developed the ComputerLink, an electronic network designed to reduce isolation and improve self-care among home care patients and directed HeartCare, a web-based tailored information and communication service that helped home-dwelling cardiac patients recover faster, and with fewer symptoms. Dr. Brennan is National Program Director of Project HealthDesign, a RWJ-funded initiative designed to stimulate the next generation of personal health records. Additionally, she leads the WI-TECNE project, a statewide nursing faculty development effort supported by HRSA that will improve the integration of informatics and telehealth into nursing curricula. She is fellow of both the American Academy of Nursing (1991) and the American College of Medical Informatics (1993). Dr. Brennan was elected to the of the Institute of Medicine in 2002, and in 2009 became an elected member of The New York Academy of Medicine. [cid:image002.jpg@01CC098D.50CD6AE0]In January of 2011 Lygeia Ricciardi joined the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) as its Senior Policy Advisor for Consumer e-Health. She is responsible for developing and managing ONC's national consumer e-health program. For the last several years she has been a consultant on consumer e-health through her own company, Clear Voice Consulting, and Clinovations, where she led the Consumer Health Division. Her consulting clients included the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the California Healthcare Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and the New York State Department of Health. Previously, Lygeia was a Director in the Health Program at the Markle Foundation, a health policy analyst and speechwriter for the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, a content producer at a dot com, and a Research Associate at Harvard Business School. She earned a Masters in Technology & Education from Harvard, with extensive independent study at the MIT Media Lab with its co-founder, Seymour Papert. She writes, speaks and tweets frequently about consumer engagement in health and health care via technology. 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