Healthcare
Community health workers, mobile phones, and evidence based medicine can eliminate preventable deaths, reduce costs, and increase health worldwide. We help organizations like the Hesperian Foundation build Digital Commons where people can find relevant, reliable, and accessible materials and adapt the materials to their specific needs.
Education
Open access textbooks, instant messaging, team based mentoring, and school information systems create powerful learning environments for students and educators. We bring these pieces together in a modern Student Notebook that gives students a better educational experiences.
Social service innovation
Whether it's child care for working parents, mentoring for troubled youth, or training for the unemployed our current economic system continues to "fly blind" when it comes to allocating resources and measuring the value of caring. Within each project we look to create feedback mechanisms that lead to measurable, sustainable improvements which go beyond simply counting the number of people receiving assistance to assessing the quality of their experience relative to expectations. Over time these mechanisms can help us lay a solid foundation for the service economy.
Recent News
Fall 2011
In partnership with the UnaMesa Association, the Hesperian Foundation launched their digital health guides, bringing reliable health information to mobile workers across many languages. Original published in the early 1970's, Hesperian's "Where There Is No Doctor" and related titles became a critical resource for community health workers and has been translated into 80 different languages. Communities now have access to new, up-to-date, digital versions of life saveing material which they can customize and adapt to best serve their needs. For details, see our latest newsletter.
