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Silicon Valley Sim Day, September 19, 2006
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See Sim Day Blog, with photos and comments from participants
Silicon Valley Sim Day was held at the Intuit campus in Mountain View , California , on September 19. All of us on the HumaniNet and TechReach teams wish to thank everyone who participated and attended. We enjoyed meeting you, and we learned a lot about
Presentations
The following presentations are available for download:
Schedule of events:
12:30 - 3:30pm |
Communications center and technology demonstrations |
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3:30 pm |
Featured speaker: Stuart Gannes, Director, Stanford Digital Vision Fellowship Program, on "Connected Communities Worldwide."
The Digital Vision Program supports individuals who seek to develop technology-based solutions in the interest of humanitarian, educational, and sustainable development goals.
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4:00 |
Don Bruce, MD, Founder, TechReach International
TechReach International is a consortium of volunteer wireless technologists. Trained and certified; they will be deployed into disaster environments where the communication network is impaired, deploying teams both domestically and internationally.
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4:10 |
Gregg Swanson, Executive Director, HumaniNet
HumaniNet is a nonprofit organization that supports humanitarian relief and development field teams with practical assistance in global information and communication technologies, or ICT.
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4:15 |
Dieudonne Kamara, Telenor Satellite Services
Telenor's emergency response kit provides first responders with reliable mobile voice, data and Internet communications via satellite.
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4:30 |
Mark Summer, Co-Founder and CEO, Inveneo
The Inveneo Communications System ™ is designed to provide computing, Internet Access and VoIP telephony for places with little or no access to electricity or affordable communications.
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4:45 |
Seth Mazow, Interplast
Interplast---the first humanitarian organization to provide free reconstructive surgery for children with clefts, disabling burns and hand injuries---has provided 64,000 life-changing surgeries for those who have no other access to care. Creating web based knowledge sharing platforms for the worlds plastic surgeons.
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5:00 |
Miguel Tirado, Professor, California State University Monterey Bay
International Non-Governmental Organizations' Perspective on the Design and Deployment of Communications Technology for Humanitarian Relief Operations
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5:15 |
Marc Pomerleau and Bruce Baikie, co-founders, Green WiFi
Green WiFi brings low cost, solar powered WiFi nodes through patent-pending intelligent power management that keeps the solar panels and batteries small and the cost of production low.
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5:40-6:30 |
Networking and communications center demos |
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Additional tech demos:
- UUPlus - UUPlus provides a powerful and versatile solution to the problem of sending and receiving email over slow and/or error prone data connections. UUPlus software is designed for use over low bandwidth, high latency data connections typically found in satellite and cellular phones, HF radio modems, and slow IP based links. The software is distributed as part of the UUPlus Satellite Email Service or is sold as a deployed systems solution for private or regional networks.
We have also published a report on the Portland Sim Day that was held on June 15.
*ICTs = Information and communications technologies
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