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Dadaab: Using Mobile Technology For Large Surveys In Emergency Settings
In August 2011, Internews led a joint communication and information needs assessment with Radio Ergo / International Media Support (IMS) and Star FM of Kenya, with significant support from the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). This assessment aimed at understanding the information needs of refugees in Dadaab and exploring ways to improve the flow of communication between refugees, aid agencies and host communities. Read More »
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DESIGN West: Open Source Hardware Searching For Business Model
There's no doubt that engineers like the idea of open-source hardware. There are an increasing number of open-source hardware board designs – Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beagleboard and many others – that enable hobbyist projects and the reuse of board designs in commercial products. And many engineers are putting a lot of time into enabling these movements via collaborative work online and through the creation of vibrant [communites]. Read More »
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Designing Ushahidi: Events and Personas
This is the first in a series of blog posts about upcoming Ushahidi software development changes. Today, we’ll focus on the overall design, continue to explore the user base and features requested by the various groups from election monitoring to crisis/emergency response to civil society. We’re looking for more input in person and virtually as we continue down this road. Read More »
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Digital Political Candidates Driven by Technology
What technology has done...is allowed candidates at every level to connect via personalized message with vast numbers of voters, creating platforms for two-way conversations and feedback. The future of campaigning will only grow more targeted and personal, merging the physical and the virtual. Read More »
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Don’t Call It “Open Source” Unless You Mean It
[...]Releasing an open source product is much more than making it available for free. It is a process, an ongoing commitment to nurturing something by sharing it with the world. Open source and its merits can actually be a blueprint of a much more democratic world to come as Clay Shirky explains in How the Internet will (one day) transform government. Read More »
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Education Technology Trends – Part I – Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
This is the first post of a three-part series covering recent trends and developments in education technology. Read More »
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Event Report: BRISSKit Community Day And Hack Event
The BRISSKit Community Day brought together project partners, interested biomedical research groups, developers and domain experts to learn about the BRISSKit toolkit: a national shared service designed to host, implement and deploy biomedical research database applications that support the management and integration of tissue samples with clinical data and electronic patient records. Read More »
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Exclusive Q&A: The Pair Behind #EHRbacklash And The Cure Project
If you don’t typically consider EHRs and health IT in general as metaphysical or the stuff of Buddhist sayings, well, perhaps you’ve not asked Bob Brown and Steven Waldren, MD. Read More »
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Freedom, Social Support, and Motivation
A recent TechCrunch article by Nir Eyal suggests that many apps fail to change behavior because they feel too much like work. We want to lose weight, but the obligation to log every meal seems to rob us of autonomy much like homework does. Read More »
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FrontlineSMS Helps The Busara Center For Behavioral Economics Cut 16 Hours Of Work Down To 30 Minutes
FrontlineSMS has transformed the amount of time and money it takes us to get respondents from their homes and into the lab. Looking ahead, it is our hope to be able to use their PaymentView software to simplify the way we compensate respondents for their time at Busara. Read More »
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FrontlineSMS User Community Connecting Across the World: Next User Meet-Up in Cambodia
In the below post Sophie Baron, new FrontlineSMS user, reports on the first FrontlineSMS user meet-up in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Read More »
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Getting There from Here: Four Considerations for Transitioning to Open Development
For almost two years now, we at the NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology have been talking about how to create an open-development ecosystem around the digital resources that have been developed through the caBIG program. Read More »
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How Andrew Krzmarzick Uses Open Source To Empower Citizens In Government
As the Community Manager of GovLoop—a highly active online community connecting more than 50,000 public sector professionals, including Federal CTO Todd Park—Andrew Krzmarzick suspects his role is pretty similar to leading an open source project. The open source way guides the company's decisions, communications, and interactions. And open source solutions enable them to empower citizens around the country (and the world!) who don't want to wait for their cities to make updates to a page or build apps and resources that makes their lives easier. Read More »
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How Are EHR Systems Made Useful In A Community Of Care?
The sense of community between physician and patient has been a tradition of the healthcare experience. It’s that community that not only represents the local nature of care but also the nature of trust that is built and sustained over time between these people in this relationship. Read More »
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How FrontlineSMS Helped An Indonesian Community Clean Up A River
FrontlineSMS has had a strong connection with environmental issues since our founder had the initial spark of an idea while working on an anti-poaching project in South Africa. We're delighted to share how Een Irawan Putra of KPC Bogor and the Indonesia Nature Film Society used FrontlineSMS in Indonesia to invite the community to help clean up the garbage clogging the Ciliwung River. Read More »
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