User:Bnardone/Software

User:Ben Nardone::My Talk::Internship::G1G1::Software::Peru::Nigeria

I'm looking for ways that my organization might work with or through OLPC. Couple bits that have occurred to me are below in ultra-brief format. Input solicited.

1 - Communications mechanism between nearest health care providers and children with mothers who are expecting.

• Use laptops to connect health care clinics with the families in OLPC target areas.

• Something like 'polling' software to allow teachers (or nearest healthcare entity through teachers) to ask children questions, e.g. 'who's mother is expecting',
• and then pump info to the families through the kids/laptops based on responses, eg nutritional priorities throughout pregnancy, expected/acceptable duration of labor so as to trigger intervention in problem deliveries before it's too late.
• Use same mechanism to educate? Establish a 2-way communication mechanism so that health care providers who are too far away for easy visits can monitor and guide the mothers-to-be.
• Maybe explore use of the video capture to enhance distance monitoring by the healthcare worker?

2 - Monitoring & Evaluation Data Collection devices

Turn laptops into data collection devices? Submit survey info from laptops to a site, via email or ftp? USB GPS?