The Jhai Foundation product is impressive — such cheap durable computers seem ideal for the places in which they are deployed. And equally impressive was Lee Thorn’s approach — he stressed the importance of providing hardware and work in support of uses defined out by the users of the machines and not in support of [...]
I’ve worked as a photographer in developing and rural areas, and some of the lessons Professor Parikh spoke about in his presentation about doing field work resonated with my experiences. Communicating what I was doing on assignments was key to establishing an understanding about what I wanted and needed to do for work.
In some situations, [...]
Hearing from Neal Lesh about his work in Rwanda with mobile health care raised some questions for me about the continued utility of high tech solutions in developing places after the development and initial training phase has ended.
The stated goals of this project were to help more and better health care to promote better helath [...]