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Tag Archives: Open Source
Getting active (politically) using social media
Ok, it may not be as impactful or as meaningful as marching on Washington or staging a sit-in, but if you’re using social media anyway, there are lots of ways to use it to make your political views known or … Continue reading
Posted in Exercises
Tagged Boycotts, Causes, Cell phones, Facebook, Getting active, Healthcare reform, Open Source, Twibbon, Twitter
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It was nice to see our iHRIS Suite of Open Source HR information systems included on this list of 50 successful open source projects that are changing medicine, published by the Medicine 3.0 blog.
How can we bring a Web 2.0 sensibility to international development work?
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Global Health Council 2009 Conference, where the theme was global health and technology. While I heard many things that excited me (you can read my thoughts here and here), I couldn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Questions
Tagged Global Health Council, Kiva, Mobile health, Open Source, OpenMRS, Web 2.0
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IntraHealth OPEN: Mobilizing Open Source technologies for Africa
Today marks the launch of an ambitious and forward-thinking project that the nonprofit I work for has been cooking for rather a long time: IntraHealth OPEN. IntraHealth is collaborating with Youssou N’Dour and other musicians in an effort to fund … Continue reading
Posted in Projects
Tagged Africa, Causes, IntraHealth OPEN, MySpace, Open Source, Twitter, Videos
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The future of ICT4D is the cell phone…
It is very clear to me that cell phones are the technology we should focus on for effective IT development projects in the future. This article from the Washington Post makes the case enormously well, but this is only the … Continue reading
Open Source information for nonprofits
I work at a nonprofit that develops Open Source software. We do this to provide low-cost human resource information systems to Ministries of Health in low-resource countries that they can then take ownership of and customize for their own needs. All the costs … Continue reading
