Challenges
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is planning to collaborate withhighly respected international organizations such as the United Nations Foundation, United Nations entities such as the World Health Organization, UNICEF and International Red Cross.
The initiative is called Humanitarian Technology Challenge and its purpose is finding answers to real world problems that Non Governmental Organisations face in areas of healthcare in the developing world.
The list of preliminary challenges includes:
Tracking/monitoring of supply shipment.
Patient identificatio/Electronic Health records
Affordable data communications to/from remote field offices
Power generation and storage in remote areas
Remote training for device use, treatment regimens.
The slides have been presented to IEEE - International conference on Robotics and Automation - ICRA 2008 few days ago by, I suspect, Gianmarco Veruggio.
Note that sponsors' links are also interesting.
My question would be: why are they doing this only now?
Labels: Life is a serious business, Technology
posted by Galilei @ 9:10 pm
