Wow, if my disabling brings this many responses, it worked! I think my response went to Edward only:
I think the tech part and content part need to be separated. Until each part knows what they are talking about at least. In each third world country, for the people we want to help, I think there are distinct cultural and political issues that we need to learn and tackle. We are talking about no water, no sewage, no food here. Sometimes political turmoil is more than natural famine they have to overcome. We cannot just sit here playing with python codes and contend with connecting a few instruments to a feeble laptop. There are organizations like Physicians for Peace, Doctors without Borders, etc. (yes Peace Corps.) that have exclusive knowledge about how to, and with what, help them. Javier, thank you, we need more like you to enlighten us. I myself was a techi for 20 years and quit the comfortable job because of the very reason, "disconnect" with people, that technology brings. I decided to do nursing to do hands-on help. Yes, I know WorldVista for medial record system and knows the limit there too. It will be at least 10 years for down-the-road community clinic would take that and use it. Tech people just don't get what is involved in dealing with people's lives and deaths. This is time and resource issue. By 'clinical', I meant thinking about what causes them to be sick from the beginning (primary prevention). It can be a cultural habit that brings them unsanitary environment, for which no medical information can change. Some cultures see disease as punishment from god or demon, they will not even think about applying what we bring to them. I am a student member of Physicians for Peace. I might talk to some people in the organization but I don't have time until I graduate in August. And now I have a paper to finish before midnight! Edward, I don't know why Koreans are crazy about XO. I think there are way too many geeks there. Have you heard a guy actually died playing internet game without stopping? I myself am a geek enough to spend $400 and install/update versions on my XO, almost crashing it but rescuing it with thumb usb disk version of Sugar. I want to be a human now. We need more people on the list who deal with human, such as doctors, nurses, teachers, etc. I don't want to contaminate the third world with the vice of technology. Jae.
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