This year I learned about infectious diseases and healthcare inequalities, about paediatric HIV care and the realities faced by local health centers in rural Uganda that lack equipment and staff to treat the patients that arrive each day. But mostly I spent a lot of time in front of a computer. I started out researching […]
Read more "This Year"Cross-posted from TechChange. Text to Change’s Chief Technology Officer, Marcus Wagenaar, sat down with me yesterday to discuss new projects on the horizon and innovations in the mHealth field. Text to Change (TTC) is an international NGO which uses technology for social change, or as Marcus puts it, “not just a tech company.” Instead, outreach […]
Read more "Text to Change Interview with Marcus Wagenaar"Lauri and Mike get married!, a set on Flickr. On June 9th, 2012, the bridal party and friends all went to whirly ball (that’s a thing! see photos) and had a Luau to celebrate Lauri and Mike’s upcoming wedding (it was a Bachelor/ Bachelorette party). Then on June 15th, my big sister got married! I […]
Read more "Lauri and Mike get married!"The post has been reposted from the TechChange blog. Visit techchange.org to find out about upcoming courses, such as the “New Technologies for Educational Practice.“ This past week, Raymond Besiga, my co-fellow on the Global Health Corps fellowship, and I met with Dr. Paul Muyinda, a leading mLearning practitioner in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2008 Makerere University, started a […]
Read more "mLearning at Makerere University"The post has been reposted from the TechChange blog. Visit techchange.org to find out about upcoming courses, such as the “New Technologies for Educational Practice.“ Makerere University is one of the oldest and most well reputed universities in East Africa. As a leading institution in the field, Makerere, or Mak (pronounced Muuk) as it’s affectionately […]
Read more "eLearning in Uganda: A Report from Makerere University"For my loyal fans out there (aka Mom), you’ll know that last October I was privileged to compete in the ITU Telecom Union‘s Digital Innovators competition (a competition that has since been adapted to only work with Young Innovators, a small distinction really as I could have competed in either). At the ITU competition, I […]
Read more "mEduText Redux: mCommunity"In loving memory of Julie Angelina Terranova Buonpane 22 February 1922 – 27 December 2011 without whom I would not have nearly as much sense of adventure.
Read more "IDEO Fellowship Visual Story"Reposted from the Global Health Corps Blog. ICT for Development (ICT4D) practitioners, tech companies, international organizations and development workers are debating the relevance and implications of using technology to promote health in developing countries. Some advocate the golden ticket approach; a be-all-end-all tool that will end pediatric HIV, stop extreme drug resistant tuberculosis, and end […]
Read more "I’ve got a golden ticket: eLearning in rural clinics in sub-Saharan Africa"Today at IDI, the GHC fellows happened across a medical debate that we were privileged to attend, eat lunch, and chat with some potential funders. Networking once again. The debate raged between whether we should direct more funding towards pneumonia or malaria or we should evenly distribute funding between pneumonia, malaria and other common diseases […]
Read more "Pneumonia vs. Malaria: Who gets the cash?"Safari, a set on Flickr.
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Ally Krupar 