It’s Friday the 13th! You’re so brave to venture into the World Wide Web today.
Here are the things that have caught my attention lately …
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The state of Punjab in Pakistan is using smartphones to fight dengue fever. Two sentences that jumped out at me: “Mobile phone penetration in Pakistan is 74 percent today, up from 56 percent in 2007, making the country the fifth largest mobile phone market in Asia. … Smartphones increasingly are being used across the developing world to collect data and improve health outcomes.” This seems very cool, though I do wonder how literacy rates factor into using cell phones and text messages to improve health outcomes. |
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Spikes were recently installed outside a luxury apartment building in London. Using Twitter to voice outrage, some call the installation degrading and say the homeless are being treated like “pigeons” or “vermin.” |
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Social media prenups are on the rise as couples draw up contracts about what they can and can’t post online. I tend to agree with the statement that if you are fighting over Facebook posts, perhaps you have some bigger issues to address. |
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A UK non-profit organized a design competition for a mobile clinic it could use in Cambodia. The winning design is a clinic is repurposed from a shipping container. It sits on a flatbed truck. The whole unit is pre-assembled before transportation. As well as delivering treatment, the clinic also hosts education and community activities. |