Please join us 9AM Monday Sept 13, discussing Rumi Chunara's health
surveillance work below, at Harvard Medical School, and its possible
OLPC relevance?
Ms. Chunara will appear at OLPC in Kendall Sq, Cambridge, Massachusetts
in person, giving a very snappy 10+ min presentation of her ideas around
this fascinating topic -- then asking for your practical reflections on
our global society increasingly entering the Ushahidi / Crisis-Mapping /
Grassroots Mapping era:
/"I'm working for a group that runs HealthMap (see:
http://healthmap.org). As you will see, we look for disparate
information sources to track Health events.
I was thinking that since OLPC reaches so many people in so many
places, there could be some interesting information obtained from
each of the computers when in use, that could be used for downstream
interpretation as well as possibly for feedback about efficacy of
some OLPC programs, that we could visualize and use such as the
information we currently use on HealthMap. I'm sure there a whole
host of privacy and other logistical matters regarding this, but I
[nevertheless would love to investigate] these possibilities.
I think there could be some very neat and useful properties
obtained, and OLPC can make use of it's penetration to-date to
initiate this type of work."/
All please RSVP to me privately if you want our exact Kendall Sq
location and/or conf-call digits! Also please read up on Rumi Chunara
and her 14-person HealthMap team: (http://healthmap.org/theteam/)
/*Rumi Chunara, PhD* is a Research Fellow at HealthMap and Harvard
Medical School with a background in building biological sensors.
Rumi is particularly interested in information obtained from
sensors and how it can be used to augment health care. She is
trained as an engineer and her doctoral studies were through the
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. She also has
gained clinical experience at hospitals in Pakistan, Kenya and the US./
Committed to advancing the wider R&D challenge around live-mapping
disaster/response?? Strongly consider Oct 1-3's Crisis Mappers Net Fair
& Conference at Tufts University:
http://www.crisismappers.net/page/iccm-2010-haiti-and-beyond
PS Kudos to Beth Santos for similarly making strides building strong
OLPC Health connections around sanitation/water science "curriculum"
this past Monday 9AM, with possible immediate applications for the kids
Waveplace.org is helping in Haiti by end of year.
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