Developing Mobile Based Application to Support Pregnant Women

The amakomaya (Mother’s Love) project has designed and deployed an Android application (Amakomaya) to be used by the rural pregnant women of Nepal. The application provides localized information relating to the prenatal, natal and postnatal periods of pregnancy. This information has enabled women to learn about the changes their body will undergo and how the […]

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Integrated Maternal and Child Healthcare Delivery and Training for Community Health Teams

In the Philippines, despite focused efforts to improve maternal and child health, the Maternal Mortality Rate (MRR) rose by 35 percent from 162 out of 100,000 live births in 2009 to 211 in 2011. The Project seeks to contribute to the reduction of maternal mortality rate and improvement of maternal and child health conditions of […]

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Driver Distraction Management Using Sensor Data Cloud, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Driver distraction can be defined as any type of events or causes that take away drivers visual (eyes off the road), manual (hands off the steering wheel) and cognitive (mind off the road) attention from the driving task. To reduce the number of road accidents due to driver distraction, we designed and implemented a system […]

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Real-time Hepatitis Reporting and Surveillance System in Low-Resource Settings using ICT and Mobile Phones

Hepatitis is tremendous health problem not only in Pakistan but worldwide. It is prevalent in five different forms namely hepatitis A, B, C, D, E and is communicable. Pakistan is a developing nation of more than 180 million people, and many regions of the country have alarmingly high rates of uncontrolled outbreaks of hepatitis. Regardless […]

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Pacific Islands Schools, Connectivity, Education, and Solar (PISCES) Project

The PISCES Project is bringing solar powered Internet connectivity and related computing technology to remotely located schools in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). At present, remotely located schools across the Pacific lack two key conditions for realizing technology-in-theschools project success: electricity and Internet connectivity. To help advance these schools and provide new educational opportunities, […]

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Cloud Based Application Measuring and Controlling Electricity Used for Indonesian Houses

This project is to develop a cloud based application to capture the electricity consumption data for every area of a typical Indonesian household such as kitchen, children room, guest room, bathroom, etc, without having to modify the electricity meter from PLN (National Electricity Company). Interviews, literature research and experiments will be conducted to develop the […]

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Uplifting the Community through technology

This project aims at empowering communities through the provision of low cost broadband Internet services in the Mitchell’s Plain via a Mesh Network and telephony services

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Shona, Early Learner Reader Android Application

Design an Android e-learner Application (Text to Speech-TTS) on a low cost Android tablet to allow rural children to early learn to read using a local language.

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Promoting and Monitoring Internet Freedoms in Africa through the provision of a repository for information

This project aims at providing a one-stop platform for researchers and practitioners to access reports and news on Internet rights violation. To send aggregated reports to Internet rights stakeholders across Africa (regulators, media, academia, ISPs, human rights activists) To set up a social media and group/mailing list to complement the on-line platform

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Enabling access to basic Education through Technology

To enable access to quality education to children from poor and marginalized communities via (1) the setting up of video conferencing and a web-based E-learning Basic Education Platform and (2) the development of e-learning Content for Secondary Education through adaptation of Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Content and other Open Education Resource (OER)

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