This Thursday at Change John Tippett and David Hutchful will present an overview of Grameen Foundation's Mobile Technology for Community Health (MOTECH) platform. MOTECH is powering health interventions in Africa and Asia focused on maternal and child health, HIV/ART compliance, TB treatment, and more. We'll discuss the motivation for MOTECH, give an overview of what the system can do, discuss the realities of delivering an ICT system with examples from MOTECH Ghana (where David works), and talk about the next steps for MOTECH features and applications. *David's bio* David is the program manager for MOTECH Ghana. He has background as a user experience researcher with experience in software development and the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for socio-economic development. Prior to MOTECH, David spent a year developing a scalable model and software platform to support the production of open educational resources at higher education institutions. He has also spent two years with the Technology for Emerging Markets (TEM) Group at Microsoft Research in India, where he conducted research and published on the design and use of technology in the areas of education and financial services. David received a B.A. in Computer Science and Philosophy (minor) from Calvin College and a master?s degree in information with a specialization in human-computer interaction from the University of Michigan.
*John's bio* John is the program manager of MOTECH, Grameen Foundation's open source mobile health platform. In that role, he defines and delivers releases of the MOTECH system which meet the needs of mobile health deployments from Grameen and other partner organizations including CARE, Johnson & Johnson, and the BBC World Service Trust. Prior to his work at Grameen Foundation, John led teams which shipped consumer and corporate software applications at Microsoft. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. *What:* John Tippett and David Hutchful from the Grameen Foundation *When:* Thursday, Dec 8th at noon *Where:* Paul Allen Center, Room 203 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/private/change/attachments/20111206/72adcd78/attachment.html>
