Mobile health solutions for West Africa
Posted on | February 23, 2010 | No Comments
MHealth Alliance (picture source) and Orange Healthcare team up to develop mobile health solutions for West Africa.
At the GSM Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Orange Healthcare announced last week that they will be joining the mHealth Alliance, a partnership which leverages rapid advances in mobile technology to improve public health, health care systems and patient care in the developing world. Orange Healthcare will begin working with the mHealth Alliance on projects focused in West Africa.
Read more on the MKFC Stockholm College ChangeMaker blog.
Kevin Kelly tells technology’s epic story
Posted on | February 22, 2010 | No Comments
In this wide-ranging, thought-provoking talk from TEDxAmsterdam, Kevin Kelly muses on what technology means in our lives — from its impact at the personal level to its place in the cosmos.
Kevin Kelly has been publisher of the Whole Earth Review, exec editor at WIRED, founder of visionary nonprofits, and writer on biology and business and “cool tools.” He’s admired for his new perspectives on technology and its relevance to history, biology and religion.
Keeping an eye on the Earth
Posted on | February 19, 2010 | No Comments
The European Environment Agency (EEA) and Microsoft have recently launched a website which collects climate data, by actively encouraging EU citizens to actively contribute their observations about the environment, reports BBC.
Water and air quality data from the member countries are displayed on an interactive map, and official data from the EEA as well as the information that users of the website have submitted is available. For example, users can rate the air quality of their area by choosing among different alternatives, such as “clean” or “irritating”. In the long run, the EEA’s executive director Jacqueline McGlade hopes that the website will move beyond air and water quality and become “a platform which will enable citizens to actually tell us what they’re going to do to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by changing something in their own life”.
Read more in this BBC article, or visit the Eye on Earth website.
Source: BBC.
Written by Fanny Johansson
Learning for a sustainable world
Posted on | February 17, 2010 | No Comments
MKFC Stockholm College is working to realize Education for All (EFA) and to make the educational activities sustainable (ESD).
“In this regard, EFA provides the basic foundation for building more just societies focusing on rights, empowerment and development, but it does not go far enough. This is where ESD reinforces EFA efforts by challenging dominant conceptions, structures and content of education, thereby helping to improve its relevance. It is interdisciplinary in nature and focuses on critical thinking and lifelong learning. Moreover ESD’s emphasis on values such as peace, equality, respect for human rights, gender, environment and cultural diversity are key contributions to improving educational quality”.
Read the whole report from UNESCO about the connections and benefits of integrating and discussing EFA and ESA at the same time on how to “Educating for a sustainable world”.
New technology changing the ways in which we learn
Posted on | February 11, 2010 | No Comments
New technology has always played a big part in changing education and the ways in which we learn. And perhaps more so now than ever. BBC has explored three new, unique initiatives in education technology.
The first example is from Bangladesh, where a scheme called The Janal Service gives anyone with access to a mobile phone the opportunity to learn English. So, how does it work? You simply call a number and listen – essentially more convenient than carrying around heavy (and often expensive) books or dictionaries. And since mobile telecommunications is the fastest growing industry in Bangladesh, more and more people are using mobile phones.
The other two examples brought up in the article are a One Laptop Per Child-project in Brazil, and a new innovative classroom in Britain, complete with touch screens and all sorts of progressive technology for new learning opportunities.
The article, which also features some audio reports, can be found here.
Source: BBC.
Written by Fanny Johansson
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