Thanks all for joining Monday 9AM EDT (Boston Time, that's 19hrs45min
from now) for Rumi Chunara's presentation and community Q&A, where ~10
PDF slides and a live phone number will be posted. Join us here, at
that time:
http://forum.laptop.org/chat
Firefox preferred -- or point your favorite IRC client software to
channel #olpc-help on irc.freenode.net -- thanks all for your
input+ideas on the call!
Holt wrote:
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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