Other Stuff: Project Ideas, Communications Technology for Developing Countries, PhD Work

Project Ideas: (feel free to use these)
Using Monetary Incentives to Improve Accuracy of Self-Reported Condom Use in Resource-Poor Settings
Between January 2005 and May 2006, I was part of the Technology Infrastructure for Emerging Regions (TIER) project at University of California, Berkeley.
In September (2004), I completed my Ph.D. in Applied Math at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I was part of the Theory of Computation group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and also part of the Harvard Broadband Communications Laboratory.
In December 2004 I visited 7 of the Community Information Centers in Cambodia, run by the Asia Foundation. These computer centers with internet connections provide much needed information in health, agriculture, news, and government programs to areas of Cambodia with little other information sources. Here is a project overview.

My purpose was to create a List of Projects that interested people can work on that would be useful to the Community Information Centers.
Please take a look and contact me if any of them interest you! (A wonderful project is to create CD's of freely available English as a Second Language software, for areas that have computers but no internet connectivity. There is much demand for this.)

At MIT, I did a project on improving technology use in humanitarian assistance operations.
Click here for a summary of my project: Matching the Technology Needs of International Humanitarian Assistance Programs with MIT Researchers.
Click here for my compiled list of: Humanitarian Assistance Technology Projects.
I have an initial list of: Organizations Working to Support Humanitarian Organizations through Improved Technology. Note: This list is a small sample of organizations involved in this area.

HELP 2002
In 2002, I completed the Management of Health Emergencies in Large Populations (HELP) course given by The Johns Hopkins Center for International Emergency, Disaster, and Refugee Studies (CIEDRS) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). A picture of my eclectic class who are at this moment out saving the world.

I do consulting on programs for gifted students, and individual tutoring as well. Please contact me by email (below) if interested. I have taught at Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), Duke's Talent Identification Program (TIP), and the East Palo Alto Center for New Generation; I designed software for Stanford's Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY).

Feel free to e-mail me: mrosenblum "at" csail dot (Ignore This Sentence--it's Just to Avoid Spam.) mit dot edu