thanks for posting this Yaw. I'd like to acknowledge and thank the UW students who worked on this application during of the 2 quarter-long ICTD capstone (CSE481K-HCDE496<http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse490d/11sp/>) that was taught by Profs. Gaetano Borriello, Ruth Anderson and Beth Kolko.
CSE: Troy Martin, Jillyn Johnson HCDE: Darivanh Vlachos, Jabili Kaza, Joy Palludan, Nathan Bilbao, Josie Nutter Thanks for the awesome work you've done on this project! Over the past 3 years this is the second (or third?) project from the ICTD capstone course that has been awarded a Gates Grand Challenge Exploration grant. Rohit On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Brian DeRenzi <bderenzi at gmail.com> wrote: > Small correction: the link for FoneAstra is: > > http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/rohitc/foneastra.html > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Yaw Anokwa <yanokwa at cs.washington.edu> > wrote: > > We just received some exciting news about a UW Change and PATH > > collaboration which has received Gates Foundation funding. > > > > According to PATH.org, "PATH will lead a new research project to > > develop a low-cost, cell phone?based system for human milk banks to > > monitor the safety of donated breast milk, supported by a $100,000 > > grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation?s Grand Challenges > > Explorations initiative. > > > > The system combines the power of cell phone technology with the > > simplicity of a low-tech flash-heating pasteurization process to > > ensure that breast milk donated to feed vulnerable infants is free of > > bacteria and viruses, including HIV, while retaining its nutritional > > value. > > > > The 12-month grant was made to a multidisciplinary team that includes > > PATH and two partner organizations?the Department of Computer Science > > and Engineering at the University of Washington and the Human Milk > > Banking Association of South Africa. > > > > The team will develop and field-test a networked temperature sensing > > system using FoneAstra > > (http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/rohitc/foneastra.htm), a cell > > phone technology, to accurately monitor and validate temperatures > > during flash-heating. It will provide real-time, audiovisual feedback > > to users, allow automated supervisor monitoring, and archive results > > for review and audit. > > > > Flash-heating is a simple, effective way to pasteurize breast milk > > that is more affordable for human milk banks in low-resource settings > > than standard commercial-grade pasteurization. The total cost for the > > monitoring system will be less than US$100, compared to > > commercial-grade pasteurizers, which cost up to $12,000". > > > > Read more at http://www.path.org/news/an111107-infant-nutrition.php > > and congratulations to Rohit Chaudhri and the entire FoneAstra team! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > change mailing list > > change at change.washington.edu > > http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change > > > > _______________________________________________ > change mailing list > change at change.washington.edu > http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/private/change/attachments/20111119/7d1c746d/attachment.html>
