2011
March
- March 17-19: 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference, Washington, DC
- March 30 - April 1: Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford, UK
April
- April 1-3: Clinton Global Initiative University, San Diego, California, US
- April 25th - May 6th: Developer's & Programmer's Training
June
- June 27 (approximately): International Development Design Summit, Accra, Ghana
July
- July 25-29: Open Source Convention (OSCON) 2011, Portland, Oregon, US
Sept
- *April 25th - May 6th: *Developer's / Programmer's Training
October
- October 22-26: AMIA Symposium 2011, Washington, DC, US
December
- Dec 5-7: mHealth Summit 2011, National Harbor, Maryland, US
2010
September
- September 9-12: OpenMRS Implementers Conference, Cape Town, South Africa
- September 12-15: MEDINFO 2010, Cape Town, South Africa
October
- October 23-24: Google Mentor Summit, Mountain View, California, US
November
- November 8-10: 2010 mHealth Summit, Washington, DC, US
- http://www.mhealthsummit.org/
- Many relevant sessions, including:
- November 13-17: AMIA Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, US
- http://symposium2010.amia.org/
- Relevant sessions include:
- T03. Evaluating Health IT Projects: A Practical Approach
- T04. Practical Modeling Issues Representing Coded and Structured Patient Data in EHR Systems
- T05. Human-Centered Design and Evaluation of Health Information Systems
- T08. Transforming & Visualizing Clinical Data for Research
- T09. Clinical Classifications and Biomedical Ontologies: Terminology Evolution, Principles, and Practicalities
- T14. Standards for Storing and Exchanging Clinical Data in Electronic Health Record Systems
- T19. Personal Health Records, Patient Portals & Consumer-Facing Health IT
- W06. Data Security in the Wired World: Risks, Strategies, and Opportunities
- W07. Standards in Clinical Decision Support: Activities in Health Level Seven and Beyond
- W09. Performance Measurement and Reporting using Electronic Health Record Data
- T24. Embracing Healthcare IT Standards in the World of Meaningful Use
- T26. Paradigm Shift – A Fresh Approach to the EHR
- S21. Clinical Decision Support and EHRs
- S22. Industry & Academia - How they Work Together
- S31. Usability Analyses of Electronic Systems
- S41. Data Entry Forms to Improve Care
- S43. Global eHealth
- S58. Use of Electronic Medical Records for Genomic Research – Preliminary Results and Lessons from the eMERGE Network
- S62. Managing Terminologies to Realize Clinical Benefits
- S71. Is an EHR More Like a Pair of Pants or a Bridge? Customization vs. Standardization to Promote Adoption
- S78. Deriving Quality Measures from Electronic Health Record Systems
- S79. Open-Source, Standards-Based Software and Services: a Viable Approach to Enabling Scalable Clinical Decision Support?
- S80. Spanning the Digital Divide: Personal Health Records and Patient Portals for the Underserved
- S90. Open Source Solutions for Public Health Practice and Research
- November 29 - Dec 3rd: Open Source Health Informatics Meeting, Granada, Nicaragua
December
- December 1-3: Impementer's Workshop, Eldoret Kenya
- http://reach.ampath.or.ke/
- Sessions include
- Introduction to medical informatics
- Introduction to OpenMRS
- OpenMRS installation
- OpenMRS Maintenance and Upgrade
- OpenMRS data Model
- Data collection tools (Forms design and usage)
- Reporting -Cohort builder and Data export
- December 13-16: ICTD 2010 - International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, London, UK
- http://www.ictd2010.org/
- Relevant paper presentations include:
- Open Data Kit: Tools to Build Information Services for Developing Regions, Yaw Anokwa
- ICTD Research by Africans: Origins, Interests, and Impact, Paul Plantinga
- A Study of Connectivity in Millennium Villages in Africa, Jyotsna Puri; Patricia Mechael
- Research and Reality: Using Mobile Messages to Promote Maternal Health in Rural India, Divya Ramachandran
- Poster presentations include:
- Assessing the scope for use of mobile based solution to improve maternal and child health in Bangladesh: A case study, Mafruha Alam
- Beyond being a Proxy User: A look at NGOs? Potential Role in ICT4D Deployment, Shikoh Gitau
- Using Mobile Phones and Open Source Tools to Empower Social Workers in Tanzania, Daniel Nuffer
- The Human Infrastructure of ICTD, Nithya Sambasivan
- Sessions include:
- Health promotion and well-being in mobile-centric environments
- Information as a global public good: enabling access to knowledge through open licenses
- Mapping out a research agenda for mHealth
- Open Development, Organiser: Laurent Elder (IDRC-CRDI)
- Randomised Control Trials: Innovations for Poverty Reduction
- Research Ethics in ICT4D
- Development Theory “Teach-In”
- Technology demos:
- OpenMRS in Rwanda (Hamish Fraser)
- Open Data Kit (~yanokwa)
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11th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, Conference Theme Partners for Development: ICT Actors and Actions, Kathmandu, Nepal, 22-25 May 2011, Submission Deadline 15th November 2010
The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) invites you to the 11th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries. The conference will be held in Kathmandu, Nepal during 22-25th May 2011. The conference will be co-hosted by Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu.
Research on ‘ICT for development’ (ICT4D) is now well established. While ICT is now generally accepted to have a key developmental role, the actual process through which development is influenced remains a much debated issue. Increasingly both conceptual and empirical research on ICT4D has sought to identify and better understand the challenges posed by the socio-political context in which ICT is used in developing countries. With the conference theme, Partners for Development: ICT Actors and Actions, we hope to draw special attention to the role played by multiple actors – public and private, activists and entrepreneurs as well as other kinds of intermediaries – within ICT4D processes and their associated impacts. The conference hopes to provide a space for articulating a variety of approaches and views from these different types of actors in relation to ICT and sustainable development. Nepal, the host country for this year’s conference, presents a unique opportunity to engage with such actors given the growing significance of ICT in this landlocked, mountainous, developing country. In addition to papers from the field of information systems, we also invite contributions that address the conference theme from a variety of other perspectives such as development studies, political science, political economy, social anthropology, and sociology. Multidisciplinary papers are very welcome.