PHASA brings together researchers and public health professionals from around the country. As valuable as the conference is in its current form, perhaps a great addition would be the creation of a forum on the role of ICT in public health.

The Mobile Web East Africa Conference takes place in Nairobi, Kenya on 3 and 4 February focusing on “harnessing the potential of the internet and applications on mobile devices”.
With contributions from individuals such as Erik Hersman (of White African and Ushahidi acclaim), Steve Vosloo (a fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation), Vincent Maher (internet services portfolio [...]

It’s very encouraging and gratifying to see two papers being presented at this year’s Public Health Association of South Africa conference based on experiences of client organisations making use of Mobile Researcher.

We’re exhibiting at the PHASA 2009 conference – drop by our stand if you’d like to see how mobile and web technologies are being used by organisations involved in research and public health initiatives.

Last month I travelled up to Johannesburg to attend the Health Informatics of South Africa (HISA) conference, held at The Emperors Palace. The event was a great opportunity to learn more about the bigger picture with regard to the challenges South Africa faces in implementing effective health information systems.
I was surprised to find how political [...]

The South African Monitoring & Evaluation Association conference 2009 will bring together a range of practitioners, experts, users, service providers, academics and other parties interested in the field of Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E).

A very brief review of the 2009 conference of the South Africa – Finland Knowledge Partnership on ICT.

Our collaboration paper with the MRC “An Information System for Good Start III – The Role of Web and Mobile Technologies in a Randomised Control Trial” has been accepted to be presented at the 2009 HISA conference.

I recently attended the Mobile Research Conference held in London, organised by Global Park who also provide software for research purposes.
This is the first international conference which focuses on the topic – most previous conferences only including a mobile component.  Although I heard about it too late to submit anything to present, it was great to [...]

Mark Fowles and I will be exhibiting at mobileactive08.  The conference takes place in Johannesburg.  If you are interested in learning more about how Mobile Researcher is being used for social good, please come and drop by our stand.