Great video from our partners in Chile detailing the DatAgro project currently being implemented in the Bernardo O'Higgins region of Chile. Spanish with English subtitles.
Commentary in the Economist last week about the three undersea cables that are FINALLY getting connected in Kenya. East Africa may the last highly populated area on earth that has been getting by with slow and expensive satellite internet. The new cables, the first of which is due to come online very soon, should dramatically improve speed and dramatically lower the price of access.
I'm at the Knight News Challenge today on the campus of MIT. It's a conference and awards event for the winners of the Knight News Challenge Grant. DataDyne is a part of this, because we won last year for the DatAgro project in Chile, powered by our MIP technology. But I just want to put in a general plug for the Knight Foundation, and the News Challenge.
The Lemelson-MIT Program, which encourages "sustainable new solutions to real-world problems" has awarded their 2009 Award for Sustainability to DataDyne.org co-founder Joel Selanikio.
CNN/Technology front page article on the great impact, and potential future impact, of mobile phones on outbreak response. EpiSurveyor is highlighted in the context of its use in Kenya for polio outbreaks.