For quite some time now, a group of well known personalities from the mobile, advertising and business worlds have been working to give shape to an initiative that may change the mobile communications market in dramatic ways. It may even have a huge impact on advertising both on-line and on any other......
TAVOS Media Network is a trail-blazing venture based in Palo Alto, California, that empowers people in underserved communities around the world through local media services. Our vision is to build a global network of local media microfranchises to give voice and promote the life and prosperity of every......
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From a recent Fortune magazine that I read that most companies in S&P have been rated as risky. This represents a huge challenge for companies as new emerging economies such as India, China or other countries mean new business models which have to be sustainable and scalable and I do not think that there are in most text books or case studies of......
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There's been a recent hype around the use of mobile technologies to "empower" people to submit reports "from the field", take action and change the course of society...
Somehow, just like we were promised that TV would educate people and that the Internet would free us all, we've heard it all before, yet we have to see it......
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Disease surveillance is an important aspect of any public health-care programme that serves two essential purposes, one of which is monitoring the progress of ongoing medical interventions for disease reduction, and the other is for the early detection of outbreaks to initiate investigative and control measures. Disease Surveillance is also a basic tool for the field epidemiologist as surveillance data provide a scientific basis for implementation of an appropriate health-care policy, disease control decisions, the evaluation of the efficacy of surveillance initiatives, and for the allocation of resources in the primary health-care system....
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Disease surveillance is an important aspect of any public health-care programme that serves two essential purposes, one of which is monitoring the progress of ongoing medical interventions for disease reduction, and the other is for the early detection of outbreaks to initiate investigative and control measures. Disease Surveillance is also a basic tool for the field epidemiologist as surveillance data provide a scientific basis for implementation of an appropriate health-care policy, disease control decisions, the evaluation of the efficacy of surveillance initiatives, and for the allocation of resources in the primary health-care system....
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Cellphone applications today are often focused on, in some sense simplified, displaying the web page to the cellphone. The web pages are more or less exclusively designed only considering the restrains of a regular work station. This is perhaps one most important challenge in future cellphone solutions and in many ways this is a philosophical challenge rather than a technological challenge. Nevertheless, I will not try to fully address the challenge in this blog post, but indicate what I believe are the key elements of it and sketch the......
Attached is a New York Times article from Davos about Microsoft's response to the One Laptop Per Child project by MIT's Negroponte. They propose using a cellphone as a computer connected to a TV and a keyboard. I don't know about the feasibility of Microsoft's proposal but the fact that they have one demonstrates the power of OLPC, open-source and market dynamics....
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Ozura launches new action game “Busy Bar”...