Here are 2 links on how cultural anthropology is applied in military interventions. The fact that it is the military frames it in contentious ground, but how might this be applied to say, health systems development programs?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13643
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/jfq_pubs/1038.pdf
Friday, October 23, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Lost in Work
I waited for 1 hour paying for an item at the mall recently. What would take 10 minutes dragged on because one stamp was missing.
I attendant was truly distressed and searching for the stamp, while several others shifted papers around trying to look busy and relevant. I guess this is the tendency of many workers.
I attendant was truly distressed and searching for the stamp, while several others shifted papers around trying to look busy and relevant. I guess this is the tendency of many workers.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Civic Media in the Philippines
Aha, civic media in the Philippines kicks in as floods are reported
Reminds me of the Civirep project last spring.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
10 NonHealth Levers for Health Outcomes
1. schools
2. Telemedicine
3. Microfranchising
4. Diaspora dynamics
5. Employers
6. Local government
7. Student researches
8. Participatory budgeting
9. Call centers/BPO
10. Tourists/Foreigners
11. Facebook
Health Governance Roadmap for LGUs
Here's a draft LGU Health Governance Roadmap from a few years ago.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Possible Research Topics
Possible Research Items
1. Health Cividata
Public information like Wikipedia, Google Maps, Wikimapia, allow citizens to make better-informed decisions.
How can Philippine health data be crowdsourced, pooled, and opensourced into a highly mashable format so that more civic groups can participate in health governance and service delivery
http://www.citizenwater.org/search/
2. Indigenous health –
-Estimated 3M indigenous people in the country
- Many are marginalized economically, geographically, and culturally by the mainstream health system
3. Business continuity
- Swine flu, TB, and other emerging infectious diseases are a significant threat to business continuity, esp. call centers
- What industry leadership mechanisms are available/needed to make businesses more responsive /resilient in the face of potential epidemics?
4. Solar Disinfection of Water Feasible as a Philippine Policy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwivMQkAcfg
5. SMS-based water tapping solution - The local water utility in NCR loses 50% of its water to illegal water tapping. This also reduces water pressure, which results in increased contamination of water in the pipes. Some sonar-based phone device exists in Africa, but it needs to be retooled for Philippines
http://www.advancedinformation.net/water-monitoring.html
6. Telemedicine
There's plenty of work to be done on telemedicine through pharmacies, sari-sari stores, schools, etc
http://clickdiagnostics.com/knowledgecenter.html
How can we implement this with Hapinoy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VokgAtxefao
7. Sugar is the OS on the One Laptop per Child project
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2255304751539750822
There is a team putting Sugar on a USB stick, so that a child can bring his OS-apps-documents around in a USB stick.
Sugar-Takbo is a Sugar-based app that coaches a pupil on self health care loosely based on the video below
http://newmed.media.mit.edu/projects/?collaborhythm
8. Alternative budgeting
9. Micro certification registry
10. FilAm Legacy health fund
- There are 17t Filipino MDs and 100t nurses in the US
- 501c-3 and mission related investments allow tax deductible donations for the Philippines health system
- How can 1 billion PhP endowment be raised to catalyze FilAm-Filipino innovations in health?
11. Sowatch and prov investment plan
12. Celedu for health
Put links
13. Tb offsets
Put links
14. MDR Island – expected 14,000 MSR cases in
15. Voices for Health
Many sectors are marginalized in the Philippine Health system, ex: Indigenous people, fisherfolk,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMEPV-NTeZs
16. Monitoring private sector health facilities
1. Health Cividata
Public information like Wikipedia, Google Maps, Wikimapia, allow citizens to make better-informed decisions.
How can Philippine health data be crowdsourced, pooled, and opensourced into a highly mashable format so that more civic groups can participate in health governance and service delivery
http://www.citizenwater.org/search/
2. Indigenous health –
-Estimated 3M indigenous people in the country
- Many are marginalized economically, geographically, and culturally by the mainstream health system
3. Business continuity
- Swine flu, TB, and other emerging infectious diseases are a significant threat to business continuity, esp. call centers
- What industry leadership mechanisms are available/needed to make businesses more responsive /resilient in the face of potential epidemics?
4. Solar Disinfection of Water Feasible as a Philippine Policy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwivMQkAcfg
5. SMS-based water tapping solution - The local water utility in NCR loses 50% of its water to illegal water tapping. This also reduces water pressure, which results in increased contamination of water in the pipes. Some sonar-based phone device exists in Africa, but it needs to be retooled for Philippines
http://www.advancedinformation.net/water-monitoring.html
6. Telemedicine
There's plenty of work to be done on telemedicine through pharmacies, sari-sari stores, schools, etc
http://clickdiagnostics.com/knowledgecenter.html
How can we implement this with Hapinoy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VokgAtxefao
7. Sugar is the OS on the One Laptop per Child project
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2255304751539750822
There is a team putting Sugar on a USB stick, so that a child can bring his OS-apps-documents around in a USB stick.
Sugar-Takbo is a Sugar-based app that coaches a pupil on self health care loosely based on the video below
http://newmed.media.mit.edu/projects/?collaborhythm
8. Alternative budgeting
9. Micro certification registry
10. FilAm Legacy health fund
- There are 17t Filipino MDs and 100t nurses in the US
- 501c-3 and mission related investments allow tax deductible donations for the Philippines health system
- How can 1 billion PhP endowment be raised to catalyze FilAm-Filipino innovations in health?
11. Sowatch and prov investment plan
12. Celedu for health
Put links
13. Tb offsets
Put links
14. MDR Island – expected 14,000 MSR cases in
15. Voices for Health
Many sectors are marginalized in the Philippine Health system, ex: Indigenous people, fisherfolk,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMEPV-NTeZs
16. Monitoring private sector health facilities
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