Rakesh<br><br>One of the NGO with whom I am closely associated, we got a mobile based application developed to collect data and transmitted over SMS and collate on the internet.<br><br>I am sure XO could be utilized for various health project. We have been planning for a pilot project using EEPC (I have few in my organization) and its built-in webcam for distanced-healthcare, specially for the unit we are setting up at Sunderbans.<br>
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<p>Health care is another area that can gain from students using XO and helping their parents to create electronic health records that can be updated regularly so as to maintain continuity of care. </p>
<p>This can also be regulated through SMS inputs into a mobile web based platform. </p>
<p>As detailed before we have been inspired by the OLPC India to make a small beginning by trying to utilize rural school children to interview their parents and help create their parent's basic health record ( to start with in the form of a story of their parent's lives) as a part of their co curricular activity. </p>
<p>Hope to get more inputs on this thread.</p>
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<p>A step in this direction was to extend communication between XO and cell phones;supporting text messaging (Ubiquitous in rural areas since here people commonly use SMS/voice calls rather than accessing mobile internet). </p>
<p>SMS with XO can be used for disseminating information; which can be either about latest commodity prices taken from school server, sent to parent's cell phone, or any other notification. Students can even send their queries to teachers and to other concerned communities. </p>
<p>I gave a demonstration on using SMS with XO at OLPC, Cambridge; the brief overview of which can be found here: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/SMS" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/SMS</a></p>
<div>Initial step has been encouraging and It will be exciting to see real-world results.</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/5/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">S. ZAHEER</b> <<a href="mailto:szaheer@gmail.com" target="_blank">szaheer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>The points raised by your friend are all valid. These laptops should not just be used as educational tool by students but can also contribute in economic progress of their parents. For e.g. it is a well known fact that middle-men in our country buy the produce from farmers at minimal prices and sell at market rates. XO can be used for disseminating correct & latest prices of commodities etc to the parents of the kids using XO laptops </div>
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<div>For this to happen, relevant and latest content in regional languages has to be made available. XO can have strategic tie-ups with such content providers as I dont think OLPC will be able to aggregate such a diverse information on its own.<br>
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<div>On a lighter side, who knows an XO child may help his parents find a suitable groom through a matrimonial site for his elder sister not just from a nearby village but from a distant state or a country :-) </div>
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<span>Coming off reviewing a major book on bio-tech, I'm impressed with the fact that we don't see things enough as flow, as context, as ecology. The XO must have major impact, but is it to pull the child out of the village, mentally, and into the Mumbai-global economy world? Or does it lead to solving community problems and enhancing everyone's potential? The child connecting adults to resources, for instance. </span><br>
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