Last Wednesday, I had the opportunity to travel again with Green Empowerment and check out the water project in progress in the community of Suro Antivo. Through a combination of municipal and foundation funds, the small collection of houses is finally going to receive safe and reliable water access to their households. To date, most [...]

Thursday morning, Wayne, Karen, and I went down to the clinic in Arequipa to discuss OpenMRS, FrontlineSMS, and MobilizeMRS with Lilia, the director of the clinic, and Maris, the assistant director of the clinic. There were a few goals to the meeting: understand the rudimentary electronic medical records system (EMR or MRS) in place now, [...]

A view of the main street running down Alta Cayma. As the city grows, it expands outwards, and the distance from the center is a decent ruler for measuring socio-economic status. The houses, businesses, and infrastructure closer to the hub are significantly nicer than those in the periphery. Conversely, a view up the street running [...]

In about a half hour, I’m headed on Continental Flight 308 to Houston, hopefully ending up in Lima at some point tonight. The plan as it stands now is to spend two months in Peru enjoying the summer and working on a few different projects. The first destination is Arequipa, in southern Peru, to do [...]

Of interest in the past week: Haiti’s road to ruin – Straight.com Haiti’s environmental woes in a nutshell, and how they’re even more applicable after the hurricane. Why not writing a story is innovation – Publishing 2.0 Down with rewriting and publishing press releases (and other such nonsense)! The Newspaper Industry and the Arrival of [...]

The cool thing about grants is that they will often fund the neat idea you have. The not-so-cool thing is that they generally take a lot of work and luck to be accepted. My good friend Isaac Holeman and I entered an application on Friday to NetSquared/USAID’s Development 2.0 challenge. They’re looking to give $10,000 [...]