The Vodafone Americas Foundation (http://project.vodafone-us.com/about-the-project/) designed the Wireless Innovation Project as a competition to promote innovation and increase implementation of wireless related technology for a better world. This year, UW Change’s FoneAstra project was chosen as one of the eight finalists. FoneAstra (http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/rohitc/foneastra.html) integrates a temperature sensor probe with a commodity mobile phone to ensure safe pasteurization of donor breast milk at human milk banks. It is a low-cost accessory for mobile phones that provides continuous temperature monitoring and real-time feedback to users during pasteurization, and archives temperature-time data at a server for remote review and audit. The total cost for the monitoring system will be less than US$100, compared to commercial-grade pasteurizers, which cost up to $12,000. FoneAstra and PATH, recently received a Gates Grand Challenge Exploration grant (http://www.path.org/news/an111107-infant-nutrition.php) to deploy the technology at human milk banks in South Africa. FoneAstra will help ensure that the breast milk given to vulnerable infants is free of bacteria and viruses, including HIV, while retaining its nutritional value. Congratulations to Rohit Chaudhri and the entire FoneAstra team (in CSE, HCDE, and PATH) on being named a finalist for the Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project. http://change.washington.edu/2012/04/foneastra-is-finalist-for-vodafone-wire...