Silicon Valley Musings

The following is my comment from a review of a fellow’s prototype Web site.
I would replace the word “Free” (e.g. Free medicine, Free doctor visits,
…) with something like Prepaid.
The visits and medicine isn’t free, you are trying to get the target
audience of this ad to pay for it.
And, at least in this country, “free” health […]

What lessons have you learned since September?
NGO’s are averse to technology. NGO?s and large health organizations like the WHO are very conservative when it comes to adopting technology.
Build instead of buy. Many NGO sponsored projects spend a great deal of effort reinventing existing technology. Some times it is due to a lack of awareness, but […]

Please contribute in what ever way you can to Senator Kerry’s campaign.

Above Stanford there is a three mile hiking trail referred to as the Dish trail. This picture was stiched together from several taken on February 9th.
The view takes in over a hundred miles from Gilroy to Marin and over seventy five miles to Mount Diablo.
Over four million people live and work within sight of this […]

During yesterday’s seminar with guest speaker
Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO of Global Fund for Women, Adam and I took notes collaboratively using SubEthaEdit (formally Hydra). Our notes from the seminar can be found here.
For me, taking notes distracts me from the topic at hand. But without notes, it is difficult recall specific details later. Collaborative […]

The Umunhum Client Application will allow doctors and other clinical staff to configure patient profiles and reminders using disconnected, stand alone PC.
When the doctors and staff finish defining reminders, they will send the results via SMTP to the On Cue Message Centre.
We are looking for XML based standards for SMS based reminders (aka alerts) and […]

A Simputer evangelist came and spoke to the fellows today. He stated that the Simputer’s value proposition had shifted from being inexpensive (this has been difficult to achieve) to being able to support smart cards and localized speech solutions for the developing world.
It is my opinion that smart card support is easy and speech […]

Version 0.1
For Review
Todo:
1. Change Subscriber to patient
2. Change Address book to to list of patients.
3. Add primary contact (aka buddy) to patient profile
Client Methods
Subscriber
Add Subscriber (client id, name, notification method, phone number prefix, cell phone number, email address, medical aid indicator, doctor, diagnosis, address book id, …)
Send Message to Subscriber (client id, subscriber id, schedule […]

Below is a list of the things that may be useful for the fellowship’s “toolbox” beyond a couple of servers:
Digital Certificates. For most of the fellowship’s projects, security is a big issue. When developing secure Web based applications, creating and managing certificates is always a problem. We could buy a multi-year digital vision […]

Dr. David Green’s On-Cue Compliance Service has been nominated by
Accenture for the GSM Association’s “Mobile in the Community - Best
Use of Mobile - Special Needs” award. Winners will be announced on
February 24th in Cannes during the GSM Association’s annual conference.
Details can be found here.