Transcending Technology – Michael J. Russell

Mobile technologies have the potential to transform global health care on many fronts, from research and diagnostics to training and preventative interventions. Targeting experts from such diverse fields as medical research, software design, clinical health care, hardware manufacture and network transmission, the summit hopes to spur development and deployment of innovative, practical, affordable and effective solutions to health challenges in underserved and resource-poor populations.

About this post: The post below is my edited summary of John McCreary’s informative, unclassified/open source NightWatch Global Intelligence Update.

afcea_logo_smNightWatch is published by AFCEA, the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Assn. of which I am a member. Past editions of NightWatch are archived here in their entirety on AFCEA’s site.

Today the Washington, DC-based United States Institute of Peace (USIP) will host a symposium and live webcast on the impact of  New media Now media on global conflict resolution. Are social media tools and technologies at the core of statecraft in the 21st century? What do new research findings suggest is the impact of social [...]