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Please download Rumi Chunara's slides (14.4MB, 13 pages) in advance of
her talk.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/File:OLPCHealthMapChunara.pdf">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/File:OLPCHealthMapChunara.pdf</a><br>
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Thanks for bringing your best questions to our call & live chat
(below) 9hrs from now!<br>
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Thanks all for joining Monday 9AM EDT (Boston Time...) for Rumi
Chunara's presentation and community Q&A, where
~10 PDF slides and a live phone number will be posted. Join us here,
at that time:<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://forum.laptop.org/chat">http://forum.laptop.org/chat</a><br>
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Firefox preferred -- or point your favorite IRC client software to
channel #olpc-help on irc.freenode.net -- thanks all for your
input+ideas on the call!<br>
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Holt wrote:
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<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> Please join us 9AM
Monday
Sept 13, discussing Rumi Chunara's health
surveillance work below, at Harvard Medical School, and its possible
OLPC relevance?<br>
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Ms. Chunara will appear at OLPC in Kendall Sq, Cambridge, Massachusetts
in person, giving a very snappy 10+ min presentation of her ideas
around this fascinating topic -- then asking for your practical
reflections on our global society increasingly entering the Ushahidi /
Crisis-Mapping / Grassroots Mapping era:<br>
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<blockquote><i>"I'm
working for a group that runs HealthMap (see: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://healthmap.org" target="_blank">http://healthmap.org</a>).
As you will see, we look for disparate information sources to track
Health events.<br>
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I was thinking that since OLPC reaches so many people in so many
places, there could be some interesting information obtained from each
of
the computers when in use, that could be used for downstream
interpretation as well as possibly for feedback about efficacy of some
OLPC
programs, that we could visualize and use such as the information we
currently use on HealthMap. I'm sure there a whole host of privacy and
other
logistical matters regarding this, but I [nevertheless would love to
investigate] these
possibilities.<br>
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I think there could be some very neat and useful properties
obtained, and OLPC can make use of it's penetration to-date to initiate
this
type of work."</i><br>
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All please RSVP to me privately if you want our exact Kendall Sq
location and/or conf-call digits! Also please read up on Rumi Chunara
and her 14-person HealthMap team: (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://healthmap.org/theteam/">http://healthmap.org/theteam/</a>)<br>
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<blockquote><i><strong>Rumi Chunara, PhD</strong> is a Research
Fellow
at HealthMap and Harvard Medical School with a background in building
biological sensors. Rumi is particularly interested in information
obtained from sensors and how it can be used to augment health care.
She is trained as an engineer and her doctoral studies were through
the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. She also
has gained clinical experience at hospitals in Pakistan, Kenya and the
US.</i><br>
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Committed to advancing the wider R&D challenge around live-mapping
disaster/response?? Strongly consider Oct 1-3's Crisis Mappers Net Fair
& Conference at Tufts University: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.crisismappers.net/page/iccm-2010-haiti-and-beyond">http://www.crisismappers.net/page/iccm-2010-haiti-and-beyond</a><br>
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PS Kudos
to Beth Santos for similarly making strides building strong OLPC Health
connections around sanitation/water
science "curriculum" this past Monday 9AM, with possible immediate
applications for the kids Waveplace.org is helping in Haiti by end of
year.<br>
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