Kathleen Ludewig Omollo, Bob Riddle UMMS Office of Enabling Tech - Open.Michigan Initiative Audience: SI 657 IT and International Development Oct. 31, 2013 Download slides: http://www.slideshare.net/kludewig Except where otherwise noted, this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Copyright 2013 The Regents of the University of Michigan Overview of Department / Initiatives Captionin g and Translati on Flexible Offline Wireless Networks Approaches for Translation & Adaptable Technologies to Overcome Limited Connectivity 1
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Kathleen Ludewig Omollo, Bob RiddleUMMS Office of Enabling Tech - Open.Michigan Initiative
Audience: SI 657 IT and International DevelopmentOct. 31, 2013
Except where otherwise noted, this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.Copyright 2013 The Regents of the University of Michigan
Overview of Department /
Initiatives
Captioning and
Translation
Flexible Offline
Wireless Networks
Approaches for Translation & Adaptable Technologies to
Office of Enabling Technologies (part of Medical School Information Services)
The Office of Enabling Technologies aims to strategically enhance learning experiences at individual, team, institutional, and international levels through novel uses of information services. By leveraging a diverse toolset of technologies, design and research principles, and interdisciplinary partnerships, we empower our community to lead in the rapidly changing healthcare environment.
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Office of Enabling Technologies Featured Initiatives for Talk
• Open.Michigan Initiative • African Health Open Educational Resources
Network
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Open.Michigan Initiative
Open.Michigan enables University of Michigan faculty, students, staff and others to share their educational resources and research with the world. Our two primary goals:•to sustain a thriving culture of sharing knowledge at U-M; and•to provide comprehensive public access to all of U-M’s scholarly output.
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Image CC:BY-SA Colleen Simon (Flickr)
Free
Public
Under some licenses to use, adapt, redistribute
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Open.Michigan:Attributes of Content That Is “Open”
Context: Health DisparitiesContext for Global Activities: Limited space and instructors available
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Image CC:BY-NC-SA Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
When you look in textbooks it’s difficult to find African cases.
[S]ometimes it can be confusing when you see something that you see on white skin so nicely and very easy to pick up, but on the dark skin it has a different manifestation that may be difficult to see.
Professor at Partner Institution in Ghana
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Context: Health DisparitiesContext for Global Activities: Lack of relevant materials
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Image CC:BY Sherrie Thai (Flickr)
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Advance health education in Africa by:
•Creating and promoting free, openly licensed teaching materials created by Africans to share knowledge
•Identifying and addressing curriculum gaps
•Bridging health education communities
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Context: Health DisparitiesAfrican Health OER Network
• provide a local wireless network …• provide content via web browser …• provide content via file or app server …• do this with or without the Internet …• do it with or without an electrical outlet …• do all of this for <=$200 …
Offline & Semi-Connected Distribution:Goals
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Raspberry Pi and TPLink (configured for Library Box) are both solutions for providing digital content to laptops, smartphone, and tablets with wireless network capability in areas with unreliable electricity, no or inadequate Internet service, and limited physical or human infrastructure for technology. Connect the USB storage device and the content is available to users in range of the wireless “neighborhood”. Just plug it in to activate. Unplug it when done.
Raspberry Pi Model B26
Offline & Semi-Connected Distribution:Devices
Library Box (http://librarybox.us) similarities with Raspberry Pi:•provide digital content over local wireless network capability in areas •Can connect to rechargable battery pack for backup power source•Connect the USB storage device and the content is available to users in range of the wireless “neighborhood”
Differences: •PirateBox allows local peer to peer file sharing (read and write). •Library Box is read only for users•Raspberry Pi has a full Linux operating system, which allows full applications and more customization of services (e.g. Dropbox, Moodle), and user interface.