Telemedicine that works – Swinfen Charitable Trust

August 15, 2008

I have heard a lot about organizations that attempt to establish telemedicine programs using live satellite video feeds that ultimately fail not because of a lack of commitment but because it is technically impossible or prohibitively expensive to establish a system that can support such a program.  The Swinfen Charitable Trust relies on good old […]

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When you can’t fly to Tbilisi

August 15, 2008

I have been waiting to write this post for some time now.  I figured that sooner than later the airport in Tbilisi (TBS-Novo Alexeyevka) would shut tight and all those aid workers queuing up at airports around the world would suddenly find themselves sleeping in a terminal.  Actually, they probably found themselves with a new […]

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Telecoms Sans Frontieres is in Georgia

August 14, 2008

From their site: Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) which has been on alert since day one of the conflict deployed an emergency crew of telecoms specialists to Georgia on Wednesday. The team left from TSF’s headquarters in France and landed in Tbilisi at 17:00 local time on Wednesday to assess the telecoms needs of the humanitarian […]

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A word on adrenaline, humanitarian emergencies and news

August 14, 2008

REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili I have noticed that in the last day or so, as the fighting between Russia and Georgia has abated, that the total number of visitors to Aid Worker Daily has begun to decline and that those currently sifting through the posts are mostly interested in technology related information.  I take this as a […]

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OCHA Situation Map for Georgia available over at ReliefWeb

August 14, 2008

While the data on the OCHA map available over at ReliefWeb is fairly limited it does begin to give you a sense of population flow and current refugee and IDP locations.  For teams on the ground these maps are usually a compilation of what they already know but it is always useful to have all […]

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Microsoft Live Maps has full coverage of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan

August 14, 2008

The entire time I was lamenting the absence of data from Google Maps/Earth for the countries of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan I was completely missing the fact that Microsoft Live Maps has beautiful coverage of the entire region.  While there is a lack of high res imagery for most of the cities outside of Tbilisi […]

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IRC releases the names of victims of ambush in Afghanistan

August 13, 2008

New York, NY 13 Aug 2008 – The International Rescue Committee has released the names of its four staff members who were tragically killed in an ambush Wednesday morning in Logar Province, Afghanistan.  They are: Mohammad Aimal, 25, of Kabul, Afghanistan.  He had worked as a driver for the International Rescue Committee since 2002. Shirley Case, 30, […]

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ScanLife 2D barcode reader App now available for the iPhone

August 13, 2008

ScanLife has finally released their 2D barcode reader for the iPhone.  Until now it was available for a host of other phones but now you can hit the App icon and download it for free. ScanLife is involved in a city wide roll out of 2D barcode reviews, available via Citysearch, throughout San Francisco.  Read […]

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Update on the role Thuraya phones played in a K2 climber’s resuce

August 13, 2008

From the XSat USA website: XSAT USA played an intricate role in the survival of two climbers after the recent mountain disaster on K2. A team of twenty two explorers were attempting to successfully reach the summit and descend the deadly K2 when disaster struck. While descending the mountain, an ice wall collapsed upon the […]

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GeoCommon’s Maker – find geo-tagged data and map it (soon)

August 13, 2008

Erik Schonfeld over at TechCrunch has news of FortiusOne‘s next steps after their acquisition of Mapufacture.  Under their GeoCommons you will soon be able to locate geo-tagged data and then create eye pleasing maps like the one you see below. We covered the acquisition of Mapufacture some time ago.  Check it out for a little […]

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