The UnaMesa Association is a non-profit, world-wide association of individuals from industry, academia, and NGOs that provides free software tools and web services for schools, clinics, and other community organizations. Our goal is for every student, educator, patient, and caregiver to have access to the information they need when they need it.

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 individuals a dashboard to better education within and outside of traditional schooling systems.

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 to provide better care and make the best use of medical facilities.

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.

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Latest News

21st January 2010

In response to the Haitian earthquake, UnaMesa is working with Hesperian to provide health-related information and resources for people on the ground.

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10th January 2010

Introduced a new version of the Student Notebook for a second pilot at Queens University

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7th January 2010

UnaMesa Association's December 2009 newsletter now available.

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Contact

UnaMesa Association
654 Gilman Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
USA
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