RSSMixhttp://www.rssmix.com/This feed was created by mixing existing feeds from various sources.en-gb http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=182Mon, 18 May 2009 05:36:15 -0400Anne Naukkarinen, Mads Crone Kser, Philip Kongsgaard Dssing (team 1).Concept website: http://www.helptohelp.me.Download a documentation package (zip) containing a keynote presentation and two posters of the concept.A video demonstrating a mobile prototype will be uploaded to the website on Wed 20th May.In disaster situations it always takes some time before authorities are able to react and [...]05e5e4364ef99e462c93aa8addb8133c http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=179Fri, 15 May 2009 12:29:03 -0400ToGo Manuals is an online tool for WHO’s Health Action in Crisis department (HAC) staff involved in field work, whether leaving for, being in or returning from field. It provides instructional manuals of equipment, procedures and supplies. The manuals consist of step-by-step photo essays or how to videos complemented with text.The ToGo manuals can be [...]4e9ade118dad6864db800aee8e4d7781 http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=176Fri, 15 May 2009 08:00:57 -0400Our concept is a small Flash application that any web user (WHO’s partners and the media/bloggers in particular) can embed to their site. The tool can show either a selected piece of WHO information - the most typical pieces being graphs and maps - or it can update automatically to show the latest information from [...]700f90a992b578e6ac409727ac807546 http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=178Fri, 15 May 2009 07:41:52 -0400In an early stage of our study project we met with Nokia-Simens Networks people with a group of engineering students of the Helsinki University of Technology TKK. They were having a study project were students assignment was to create rescue communication solutions. The students were looking really the basic technology solutions, but also the “service” [...]e6730c9c5358ae635524b145c4f73de0 http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=173Thu, 14 May 2009 03:34:43 -0400The final session of the project took place 8 May, 13 - 15 pm (12:00-14:00 GVA), at third floor lecture room here in Media Lab Helsinki. During the session MA students presented the results of their design research efforts during the past spring. 3 concepts where introduced to a local audience of students, staff of [...]da0d9e3474ebe37acb8b1a7116fadb29 http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=167Tue, 12 May 2009 10:37:15 -0400Hei,Teemu asked me to do a short reminder about packaging the information and presentations of the whole project that we discussed.A summary of what we agree:1) Every group will write one blog post with the concept name as title. The post will contain a short description of the final concept, one image and links to [...]c78de762fe5f87fcdbb71b6930194eb3 http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=166Wed, 06 May 2009 06:22:37 -0400Amazing the way swine flu/H1N1 was picked up by social media, when WHO raised the pandemic level to an alarming 5 (out of 6), panicked people across the globe turned to the Internet for information.Throughout this feverish online activity, WHO was fairly absent in my view (though being quoted in all media). CDC ,on the [...]9dbb1d4e89df389d01327ebc4772201c http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=165Mon, 04 May 2009 14:28:52 -0400When following the media circus around the swine flu I have been thinking what would be a good source of information to follow the development. Naturally the WHO website is the best place to check the latest news, but if you want to study the topic more where to go? I just found a [...]674934af5e67cc7cc082ca4efb05c700 http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=164Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:50:07 -0400Participants of the course and followers of this blog might be interested in a conference that the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley is organizing. The conference is called The Soul of the New Machine, and explores the link between human rights, technology and new media. It takes place between May 4 and 5, 2009, [...]fc4595a84c1f4492bd099f0ff858c97f http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=163#comment-1307Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:48:10 -0400Thank you for highlighting this video! Please view the video and share as widely as possible.We have a question. Have you ever come across YouTube freezing the view counter? This is what is happening to our video and we believe it may be because WHO has the same IP address for majority of their computers. We figured that it could be a YouTube safety mechanism against spamming. Do you know what happens in these cases? The counter has been frozen and then sometimes it jumps up by about 50 views and stalls again. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to deal with this? Thanks again!8733b890d5ae328f8dd8deb7bd772050 http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=163Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:47:00 -040006cb15ec704f670ff101963a26a6f76c http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=148#comment-1304Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:48:45 -0400I also really enjoyed reading this and seeing your photos. Thank you for taking the time to log it like this. It will be very interesting to hear what you learnt and how WHO staff and others reacted to your ideas.172f2b8a273a3796b4cdb2d9a30c312b http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=148#comment-1303Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:24:30 -0400Thank you WHO HAC team and Sebastian, Shanfan and Jukka. I love the online documentation! Well done.7576c6e268e3d3bae0307caf0a310c6f http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=114#comment-1302Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:06:06 -0500Hi KhyyppaHow are things going? Just wanted to update you with some info regarding the WHD project. I understand you have received some photos from my colleague, Camille, for the film project. We will be sending you some good quality footage of emegency situations involving health facilities early this coming week.Let me know if you need anything else.regardsPaul63ed9b40e52c794b7c745c1ebc9b0bff http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=114#comment-1301Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:02:00 -0500Thank you very much for your reply on behalf of Group 2: Sharing tacit knowledge. The information you gave is very helpful for us.f8ed643fd121b9581b15f6e247a8d7f0 http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=111#comment-1300Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:02:53 -0500Seems we got the first spam problem. Commenting is only possible for registered users, but some weird blogs spammed us with pingbacks. I deleted the comments and disabled pingbacks, I believe these are not important for this blog.c3c2b83be5d540241fed513ef97ffc3c http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=108#comment-1297Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:59:13 -0500Mari went through this idea by phone with me last week and I have just now taken a look at the work you have done on the idea to date. It's looking good. What is the best way you would prefer to receive video and still photo content from us?thanksPaulc6313b7c33a1804073ef6fec76205ddc http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=110#comment-1296Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:55:31 -0500Again, thanks all to those looking into the World Health Day project for offering your support. We have recasted the script a bit and hope to be able to show you soon, but it seems you have the gist of it already. What you really need is the material. I will post some images now, plus find below a link to where you can obtain some initial footage from Zimbabwe for consideration. http://terrance.who.int/mediacentre/broll/ and check two files (Zim_cholera_field2.zip and Zimbabwe_Cholera_field.mpeg.zip)32a6ca7c0973e84d96cd59d288d89873 http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=102#comment-1295Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:55:10 -0500Again, thanks all to those looking into the World Health Day project for offering your support. We have recasted the script a bit and hope to be able to show you soon, but it seems you have the gist of it already. What you really need is the material. I will post some images now, plus find below a link to where you can obtain some initial footage from Zimbabwe for consideration. http://terrance.who.int/mediacentre/broll/ and check two files (Zim_cholera_field2.zip and Zimbabwe_Cholera_field.mpeg.zip)3a63cf8510bc28a5457837b4f981f569 http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/?p=111#comment-1294Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:38:17 -0500..and huge thank you for Sebastian for fixing the blog! -Teemud99687e02e51c677fff634cb794d3239