Can tech be used for Freirian empowerment? Trying at Cell-Life with mobile health. Father of Joel & Xanny, married to Marion, living in Muizenberg, Cape Town
Joined May 2012
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I've changed my Twitter account now I work with the mHealth Alliance. Please follow me @peterbenj
No SA Dept of Health rep at the mHealth Summit #mhs2012 - disappointing. Last year Dep Minister came. We need more coherence in SA projects.
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Great story showing the impact of @RLabs ow.ly/fQCtG [video]
At #mHealthSummit in Washington. Conference grown to 4,000. US-focused, though global health stream. Lots of talk of community health worker
#ICT4Health: Negative side: official ICT4H working groups not delivered; Dep Minister not here or giving direction; retrenchment fears @ MRC
At #ICT4Health conf at MRC. Positive side: Clear growth in sector - many examples of good projects; MTN & Vodacom active; some good research
Talking with #BBC about mass mHealth project in Bihar, India. Stunning large scale maternal health, negotiated 90% discounts from operators
At GSMA meeting on Pan-African mHealth Initiative. Exciting plans for universal mHealth in SA, Kenya & Nigeria - with the mobile operators
First mHealth seminar in Cape Town happened today. Discussing mobile & behaviour change. 45 people, 20 orgs - a real community is growing
Just spent 2 days at People's Parliament conf #pplpower. Some usual rhetoric, some urgency - real interest in using mobile to reach majority
SA's National Development Plan released today calls for "Recruit, train & deploy between 700,000 and 1.3 million community health workers"
Great afternoon at the Cape Town Hackathon #CTHack. Some really good projects - GIS mash-ups for NGO mapping, school reports, democracy hub
Cape Town #code4democracy started well last night with Gustav Praekelt's @gustavp talk. Now real coding happening #CTHack. Exciting.
Thanks to Open Society Foundation: they've given R300,000 to #KhayeNet to get Khayelithsa community organisations using mobile, MXit,SMS etc
Sunday I'm judging the programs at Code4Democracy Hackathon - should be great - codingfordemocracy.org
Real moves for radical tech
Tuesday workshop with Right To Know on how to open up mobile and reduce costs. Serious campaign coming to reduce SMS and airtime costs
New World Bank Report "Maximizing Mobile". Find it through Gurstein's critique wp.me/pJQl5-9t
Great discussion in Washington on use of mobile in prevention vertical transmission of HIV with mHealth Alliance, J&J, Frog design, WB ...
8 sessions on mobile tech & social networking for HIV sector at the International AIDS Conference #IAC2012 (I've presented in 2).