Jhai Remote Village – (ICT R&D Grants 2002)

To meet the express needs of villagers in the Hin Heup District of Lao PDR, Jhai Foundation has designed and is implementing a network of sustainable wireless IT Centers. Off-the-shelf components are integrated to create a rugged computer with low power-requirements, linked to the Internet via high-bandwidth, low-cost wireless (802.11b specification). The interface is a graphical Linux desktop (KDE) offering essential tools that we have localized into the Lao language.

Several objectives of this project has been completed successfully , and an interim report is available online at http://www.apdip.net/projects/ictrnd/2002/jhai/report1

Wireless Teacher Training & e-Learning Platform (ICT R&D Grants 2003)

Create a complete platform for delivering e-learning technologies to teachers and other educators in remote and rural schools and village community centers. This platform will comprise of a central software repository based on freely available sources and utilizing the Linux operating system. In addition using newly developed free and open Mesh software to offer a substantially new architecture that can both address the issues of scale as well of those of future funding and sustainability.

Project details: http://www.apdip.net/projects/ictrnd/2003/L07-Wireless_Indonesia/proposal

Pilot Testing of a Local Government Network Knowledge Sharing Network – (ICT R&D Grants 2003)

A wealth of knowledge has been accumulating in various Philippines government and non-government (NGO) institutions useful for local governance and local development planning and management. A mix of databases and knowledge bases has been started by these institutions at various levels of conversion to electronic format, for various purposes and at various stages of web readiness. This project is evaluating the use of open-source software for their web portal.

For more information: http://www.apdip.net/projects/ictrnd/2003/L25-pilot_test/proposal

Web-based Integrated DHF Surveillance System in Sleman District, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (ICT R&D Grants 2004)

Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) has been the leading cause of hospitalization and death among children in Southeast Asia since the first DHF cases were reported from hospitals in Manila, in the 1950s (Gubler, 2002). At the end of 2003 and the beginning of 2004, the number of DHF cases increased dramatically in at least 12 of 32 provinces in Indonesia (Ahmad, 2004; Arya and Varma, 2004). Yogyakarta Special Region has been among the first provinces highly endemic for DHF until now. Most DHF cases are diagnosed in hospitals, equipped with diagnostic facilities. However, the epidemiologic investigation in the community is carried out by public health staff at the community health center (puskesmas), once notified by the hospital that a DHF case lives in the administrative catchment area of the health center. An outbreak of DHF is assessed by district health office, and control measures are decided by district health officials (Kusnanto, 2003). The fragmented DHF control in the community is unfortunate, because the health administrators, the local government and the community usually respond to an outbreak when too many persons have already came down with the disease, and preventable DHF fatalities have occured. A web-based surveillance system which records and publishes accumulated number of DHF cases in every subdistrict or village every day, will facilitate an integrated approach in the detection and control of DHF cases in the community.

Better computers, with literally unlimited speed and storage capacity, the availability of powerful open source software and netware development, and improved computer literacy among public health and health care workforce could be capitalized to ensure the sustainability of the project. Database design to facilitate DHF surveillance will use mysql, one of the most popular open-source database management software. The web-based interfaces will be constructed using PHP version 4.2.2, another popular open-source software. To monitor the time-space clustering of DHF incidence in Sleman district, a simple web-based geographic information system (GIS) is used. The geoposition of the houses where the DHF cases live will be plotted in the map using global positioning system (GPS). The construction of the web-based map (under PHP version 4.2.2) was supported by WHO grant (SE/04/225281) to the Center for Health Informatics and Learning, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia.

For more information: http://www.apdip.net/projects/ictrnd/2004/L48-id/proposal

Open Source Localisation Toolkit (ICT R&D Grants 2004)

Several countries in the Asia/Pacific region are at this time considering starting localization projects, but given the size and industrialization level of the countries, they lack the human resources to start these projects without outside expert advice. This project proposes the development of a plain-language Toolkit that will allow Asia/Pacific countries (that do not have computer systems in their own language) to develop localization projects without the need of specialized help.

The Toolkit will be developed along the next two years, but several preliminary releases will be made public before. It will be tested by the Khmer Software Initiative, a Cambodian localization project, as well as another localization project if possible.

For more information: http://www.apdip.net/projects/ictrnd/2004/L11-kh

Open Source GIS/Mapping Solution for the Indian Tsunami Information Resource Center

The aftermath of the Southeast Asia tsunami has created a unique opportunity where various organizations and volunteers have come together to collectively work on the relief and rehabilitation efforts over a large geographical area. This has created sufficient interest and motivation for a large number of groups to coordinate their activities and their locative data.

Most of the groups and individuals have no access to expensive GIS or mapping technology, therefore this proposal proposes to add an Open Source GIS/Mapping solution into the existing Indian Tsunami Information Resource Center. Secondly, we will interface with the organizations and the agencies collecting tsunami data, training them on how to collect GIS data using GPS units, how to enter their data into the system, and how to use the system to visualize the data that has been collected.

For more information: http://www.apdip.net/projects/ictrnd/2005/s10-in/

Generic Engine for Modules in PrimaCare (Malaysia)

This project is aimed at developing an application that is cross-platform and practical for all primary care practitioners. It is patient-centric and made to suit the Malaysian environment. It's objective is to benefit the patient and enable all the doctors to provide quality care and to support patients in maintaining a healthy life. The software provides the system necessary to accumulate data, whether they be patient records, medication information or records on immunisations, surgical procedures etc. A collaborative sustainable joint-effort from all parties is needed for continued development and updates.

http://www.pcdom.org.my/dags/cmss/cmss.htm