Re: [liberationtech] Examples of integrated health delivery using ICTs

2013-09-18 Thread Troy Etulain 
Atanu,
  You should definitely check out the work and research of the mHealth
Alliance:  http://www.mhealthalliance.org

Troy


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Jon Camfield
wrote:

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> Beyond these resources, there's a ton of activity in this space from
> traditional development orgs:
>
> RTI's "ICT4D" (tech for development) team has a ton of health projects:
> http://www.rti.org/page.cfm?objectid=318AC349-9637-4176-A4967867C9E30EB2
>
> IntraHealth: http://www.intrahealth.org/page/ehealth (disclaimer, I
> used to sit on one of their advisory boards)
>
> Jhpiego (affiliated with Johns Hopkins) also has a strong health+tech
> team: http://www.jhpiego.org/en/content/what-we-do
>
> Datadyne also does mobile + health data collection, using a
> closed-source, but sustainable business-as-a-service model
>
> Tostan does less (AFAIK) in tech/systems work, but has the strongest
> community-led model I've come across.
>
> You might also check out the members and work around the
> mHealthAlliance: http://www.mhealthalliance.org
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>
> On Saturday, September 14, 2013 07:31 AM, Willow Brugh wrote:
> > Aston University has some initiatives around this, as does Tiny
> > Devices out of MIT (I think), but I don't know much beyond that.
> >
> > Willow Brugh // willowbl00  schedule
> > research , work
> > , or social 
> > time with me
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Allen Gunn
> > mailto:gun...@aspirationtech.org>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > OpenMRS.org is a great platform and very vibrant open source
> > community focused on supporting healthcare delivery, primarily in
> > Africa.
> >
> > peace, gunner
> >
> > On 09/13/2013 11:57 AM, Yosem Companys wrote:
> >> From: *Atanu Garai* > 
> >> >>
> >
> >> Dear All,
> >
> >> __ __
> >
> >> In last few years, several donors announced grants for ICT
> >> projects to deliver integrated health services in underserved
> >> communities. I am looking for examples of those projects
> >> implemented or in the process of being implemented to examine the
> >> project design, approach, and implementation methods. Shall be
> >> thankful for any references to such projects.
> >
> >> __ __
> >
> >> Regards,
> >
> >> Atanu
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [liberationtech] Paper on Google Glass

2013-07-10 Thread Troy Etulain 
Bruno,
  Jan Chipchase's piece on Google Glass in All Things D is worth a read:

http://allthingsd.com/20130412/you-lookin-at-me-reflections-on-google-glass/


Troy

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Paul Bernal (LAW) wrote:

>  Yes, I agree with all that - ultimately it's about autonomy, in a way.
> As we become integrated in the system, we lose that autonomy.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 10 Jul 2013, at 19:25, "Raven Jiang CX"  wrote:
>
>  I think privacy is just a small part of a larger issue when it comes to
> Google Glass and its future descendants.
>
>  The large issue is how increasing network connectivity changes what it
> means to be an individual or to even be human. As our access to the
> Internet becomes more immediate (from huge desktops to HUD) and persistent,
> I think we will stop seeing ourselves as individuals and more as a
> collective. Think of how groupthink works online and then a future where
> you can never be offline.
>
>  And when we grow reliant on Glass constantly prompting us with
> information about the real world, will we still bother to remember things?
> I feel that there is a natural tendency for those of us who are highly
> connected (myself included) to offload cognitive functions onto our
> web-enabled devices. We stop remembering certain information and instead
> remember what keywords to Google for to retrieve that information.
>
>  I wonder if hivemind will eventually become literal as technology
> progresses and more closely binds itself to our mental processes.
>
>  Sorry for the digression, but that's how I perceive privacy issues when
> it comes to Google Glass. Much like how karma and upvotes lead to
> groupthink, greater connectivity and sharing can subject our lives to
> constant peer approval. I think that wisdom of the crowd only works when
> individuals in the crowd are not subjected to the same bias.
>
> Raven Jiang
>
>  *Stanford University*
> *Computer Science*
> soraven.com 
>
>  On 10 July 2013 11:08, Paul Bernal (LAW)  wrote:
>
>> I wrote a blog piece on Glass a month or two back:
>>
>>
>> http://paulbernal.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/google-glass-just-because-you-can/
>>
>>  Here's the text:
>>
>>  Google Glass: just because you can…
>>
>> As a bit of a geek, and a some-time game player, it’s hard not to like
>> the look of Google Glass. Sure, it makes you look a little dorky in its
>> current incarnation (even if you’re Sergey Brin, as in the picture below)
>> but people like me are used to looking dorky, and don’t really care that
>> much about it. What it does, however, is cool, and cool in a big way. We
>> get heads-up displays that would have been unimaginable even a few years
>> ago, a chance to feel like Arnie in the Terminator, with the information
>> about everything we can see immediately available. It’s cool – in a dorky,
>> sci-fi kind of way, and for those of us brought up on a diet of SF it’s
>> close to irresistible.
>>
>> And yet, there’s something in the back of my mind – well, OK, pretty
>> close to the front of my mind now – that says that we should be thinking
>> twice about pushing forward with developments like this. Just because we
>> can make something as cool as Google Glass, doesn’t mean that we should
>> make it. There are implications to developments like this, and risks
>> attached to it, both direct and indirect.
>>
>> Risks to the wearer’s privacy
>>
>> First we need to be clear what Google Glass does – and how it’s intended
>> to be used. The idea is that the little camera on the headset essentially
>> ‘sees’ what you see. It then analyses what it can see, and provides the
>> information about what you see – or information related to it. In one of
>> the promotional videos for it, for example, as the wearer looks at a
>> subway station, the Glass alerts the wearer to the fact that there’s a
>> delay on the subway, so he’d better walk. Then he looks at a poster for a
>> concert – it analyses the poster, then links directly to a ticket agency
>> that lets him buy a ticket for the concert.
>>
>> Cool? Sure, but think about what’s going on in the background – because
>> there’s a lot. First of all, and almost without saying, the Google Glass
>> headset is tracking the wearer: what we can ‘geolocation’. It knows exactly
>> where you are, whenever you’re using it. There are implications to that –
>> I’ve written about them before – and this is yet another step
>> towards making geolocation the ‘norm’. The idea is that Google (and others)
>> want to know exactly where you are at all times – and of course that means
>> that others could find out, whether for good purposes or bad.
>>
>> Secondly, it means that Google are able to analyse what you are looking
>> at – and profile you, with huge accuracy, in the real world, the way to a
>> certain extent they already do in the online world. And, again, if Google
>> can profile you, others can get access to that profile – either through
>> legal means or illeg

[liberationtech] Collusion Alleged between HP and Iran (reflets.info)

2013-06-07 Thread Troy Etulain 
See: *Hewlett Packard, transparency and the brand valuation
bubble*

"*Paris – june 7th 2013 -* Last tuesday, as part of an ongoing
investigation exploring internet censorship and monitoring in Iran and in
Syria, Reflets.info uncovered Hewlett Packard’s collaboration with
TCI,
Iran’s state-own ISP – controling all Iranian internet traffic -, in order
to update its filtering and surveillance capabilities, paired with Chinese
ZTE appliances..."

Could Iran have done this without HP's knowledge, using this equipment? Is
this really a "collaboration" smoking gun?

I don't understand the code presented as evidence, but the presentation of
the presence of "application layer content filtering and application
specific packet filter (HEV)" (see the ) on the routers doesn't seem to
fall fall short of proving active participation of HP itself (especially if
the equipment was procured from a 3rd country).

Also the article's sensationalism casts doubts on the aptitude of its
writers. Take the quote (translated by Google translate) "zxss10b200 is a
rather beautiful beast that promises love joy and eternal bliss to the
Mullah thanks to features that make dream (blacklists, QoS, Web caching".
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[liberationtech] Fwd: FW: Soliciting Comments: Internet Openness Metric Project

2013-04-11 Thread Troy Etulain 
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