The Mobility of Healthcare and Civic Engagement

Smartphones and other mobile platforms are proliferating throughout the developing world, especially as device costs rapidly decrease. Cellular voice and data increasingly reaches towards all corners of the world. These technology and economic trends have spurred research, field trials and deployments of mobile Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in support of humanitarian goals such as effective healthcare and meaningful civic engagement.

This roundtable discussion is organized within the framework of France-Atlanta 2014, a series of events centered on innovation and designed to foster cooperation between France and the U.S. Southeast in the scientific, business, cultural, and humanitarian domains. The discussion will focus on the present and future uses of mobile ICTs in both the developing world and the U.S. as well as the necessary supporting infrastructure in the healthcare and civic engagement domains. Bringing together experts in communication infrastructure, civic engagement, and health, we will discuss key lessons learned from past successes and failures to provide a snapshot of current deployment and practice, and to identify challenges moving forward.

This event is free and open to the public.

Participants include:

Orange Labs
Georgia Tech’s College of Computing
Georgia Tech’s Technologies and International Development Lab
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

When: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Where:The TSRB Auditorium at Georgia Institute of Technology (Technology Square Research Building, 85 Fifth Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30308)

For more information: http://www.france-atlanta.org/?p=96