Eduardo Jezierski: Architecture, Mobiles, and Health: 10 pitfalls

Eduardo Jezierski: Architecture, Mobiles, and Health: 10 pitfalls: "Some of the confusion is –unwillingly- created and perpetuated by the same organizations that are trying to help in the space. This includes international organizations, academia, NGOs, funders, open technology groups, private tech vendors, etc. Types of issues I’ve run into first-hand include:

* Academic projects that collect data with preference towards information that will help to publish a paper rather than the information that will be the most actionable or help community health the most. The project rarely fits in with other technologies already deployed.
* Funders that sponsor the construction of specialized, one-off, disease-specific systems, that are built from scratch even if architecturally they are the same as other specialized, one-off, disease-specific projects."

The Future of the Forum: Internet Communities and the Public Interest

The Future of the Forum: Internet Communities and the Public Interest: "This one-day symposium will explore the questions: How are Internet communities re-configuring and re-constituting common conceptions of the public, the public good, the public interest, and civic responsibility? What new forms of dialogue are emerging with our new media? When do the pleasures of interacting with digital technologies coincide with, and facilitate, progressive social action?"

QuickCheck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

QuickCheck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "QuickCheck is a combinator library written in Haskell, designed to assist in software testing by generating test cases for test suites. It is compatible with the GHC compiler and the Hugs interpreter. The author of the program being tested makes certain assertions about logical properties that a function should fulfill; these tests are specifically generated to test and attempt to falsify these assertions. The project was started in 2000. Besides being used to test regular programs, QuickCheck is also useful for building up a functional specification, for documenting what functions should be doing, and for testing compiler implementations[1]."

Small change: Does ‘microlending’ actually fight poverty? - The Boston Globe

Small change: Does ‘microlending’ actually fight poverty? - The Boston Globe: "In the world of international aid, microcredit is a rock star. The practice of giving very poor people very small loans to start very small businesses has been hailed as one of the very few unambiguous success stories in the long, frustrating fight against Third World poverty. The pioneer of the practice, Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank, has disbursed more than $8 billion in unsecured loans, usually in amounts under $100, to people traditional banks ignore. Along with a 98 percent"