At the moment I am trying to spec out some next steps for rapidsms. I am focusing on a rapidSMS turn key solution - a one step process to install rapidsms (a sms gateway and web interface). What exactly should be installed by this one step process?I keep using the...

I am writing this in Argo Tea shop in downtown chicago - the loop. I do love Chicago. In many ways it is less oppressive than new york. I am not on my A game this morning. Too much wine from wine parings that Lian and I had at Alinea last night. The molecular gastronomy...

I opened up my browser this morning and what did I see??? Unicef won a Gov 2.0 award for RapidSMS! The Unicef Story,Gov2.0What is Gov2.0? A buzz word. Database fetishism. I read a blog post this morning on Quinn said - and one of the points was the lack of imagination...

Good news from lilongwe! My RapidSMS training session has been pushed back 10 days. This is good because I really need some feedback from the field as regards the current system. I am slightly changing the way patients are registered and the way local care providers...

I have run across some linkings (mainly through other people's twitter) and I though i'd put them up:- Malawi school girl studying at US prep school for the Summer- Zinc combating diarrea in Africa- Sex workers in Swaziland (sex work is legal in Malawi and currently...

Many things have changed since I last posted. 1) I have decided to change my nutrition architecture and reuse the location app and the reporter app for locations, reporters and patients. I need to make some minor tweeks to this code to accomidate patient type things...

Score 1 for UNICEF Malawi - they picked me up from the hotel this morning. Sadly, I was unable to visit the internet cafe and sync with github. The internet cafe opens at 8 and the unicef car picked me up at 7:10. Today was also my first day without coffee, I drank...

Today brought me to the UNICEF/Lilongwe server farm/cage. I'll post a picture later.Here I inspected the source of all that is good and holy in the Lilongwe RapidSMS project - the RapidSMS server.This is the hardware system: One computer, 2 serial modems with serial...

I finally met Isaac Holeman, Clinical Programs Co-founder of FrontlineSMS:Medic. Isaac is on a year long Compton Fellowship. His project is to spec out an electronic medical records system that integrates with medical data collected in the field (via sms). Isaac -I...