[liberationtech] partner wtih us

[katmagic]

On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 07:27:20 +0530
partnerships at CHANGE <partnerships at ngochange.org> wrote:

> Dear Liberation tech participants,
> 
> We're a startup non-profit named CHANGE, based currently in South canara,
> India, on the lookout for potential collaborators for a project titled
> 'FINGO:Vaccination coverage estimation and outreach using geo-location and
> biometrics'. The project aims at bringing together low-cost mobile data
> communications, geo-location services and child identification methods (such
> as ID cards, cues and biometrics) in order to more precisely estimate
> vaccination coverage, to provide follow up services for individual children,
> and to systematically identify large gaps in coverage and factors determining
> vaccination success/failure at the sub-district level. We've attached a PDF
> that describes the background, goals and justification in brief. We'd be
> happy to hear from researchers all around the world interested in studying
> the problem in its ethnographic, ethical and legal dimensions. Please write
> to us with any queries you may have, including issues that you'd like to
> weigh in on or debate before you decide to collaborate.
> 
> hope to hear soon,
> 
> partnerships at CHANGE
> -----------------------------------------------------
> C - Center for
> H - Health
> A - Awareness, along with
> N - Novel approaches to
> G - Growth
> E - Empowerment
>  
> adithya at ngochange.org
> www.ngochange.org
> Ph: 9980949281
> 
> "Shree Haripriya", 1st floor,
> 1-31-H7 Seshadri Road
> Eswar Nagar (Behind Bhavani bus stop),
> Manipal 576104, Karnataka.
> 
> 

I think a lot of people here, including myself, have a great unease concerning
biometrics and geo-location. Perhaps you could describe what sort of data
you're planning to collect?

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