USING ICTs TO REWRITE THE HISTORY OF CAMEROON AS IT TOOK PLACE

We will develop software that enables health workers to utilize electronic medical records [EMR] remotely via SMS. We will use SIM-based mobile phones, and implement the project at clinics that serve more than 65,000 people in Peru and Burundi.

The primary interface is a map api - eg google maps.Divide the map on a country basis. Individual countries can be clicked upon. the second stage will divide those countries into clickable regions and the third stage dividing those regions into clickable local areas. Each scale provides more focus and filter.Clicking on a country zooms into the country. On the navigation bar are a series of links (Challenges, Resources, Organisations etc. Links open up to further sub links which then lead to information feeds (feeds are either RSS or scrapped using dapper) for that country divided into:1. Challenges. 2. Resources. 3. Non-Profit Sector.4. Private Sector. Zooming into the map allows more detail of filtered results for example, local newspapers, closer detail of which charities and companies are working in the area. Due to the greater detail required at local level users may log in to the site to add information via a wiki.

Link TV has already launched a linear website that allows people to post “video letters” about the 2008 U.S. presidential election, with an emphasis on international submissions. Visitors can watch short videos uploaded from all around the world, of people speaking to the camera on diverse issues like aid to Kenya, Burmese autonomy and America’s image abroad. They can upload video letters themselves, or leave text and video comments. We envision making these videos more accessible by plotting them on a world map with pinpoints indicating where the videos come from. A concurrent project at Link TV records and logs TV news reports from countries all over the world (Global Pulse). We would like to take as many as 30 world reports covering the U.S. election from countries like China, Russia and Iran, and plot these videos on the map, too, using a different color pinpoint, adding new news reports as the election cycle progresses. These pop-up windows could play the news video, and also have a tab for an RSS feed from the featured broadcaster. Other tabs could have RSS headline feeds for that country from alternative news sources like Global Voices. As a “nice-to-have”, it would be interesting to incorporate other statistical details with these video popup balloons, such as country statistics on GDP, poverty level, and (optimistically) broad assessments of U.S. aid and military involvement.