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When: Saturday May 14, 2011

Where: Stanford d.school

Who Should Attend:

• coders
• idea people to work with coders
• activists to give context/define needs
• bloggers
• social media people to twitter and fb status
• photographers to capture images
• people to do video capture
• networkers and super-connectors

How do I get involved?

1. Learn about the activists behind Egypt’s revolution
2. Submit an idea we can work on or lend your skills to an existing project
3. Register for the Hackathon

The Backstory

Earlier this year, Egyptians combined technology and political activism to revolutionary effect . After overthrowing a thirty-year dictatorship, they face new challenges to establishing democracy. Can technology help them through the divisive times ahead? The Unconference and Hackathon for Egypt is an opportunity to find out. On May 14, programmers and engineers will gather at Stanford University to meet with Egyptian activists and discuss applications that could help their cause. Our aim is to build a community that bridges Tahrir Square and Silicon Valley to show what activists equipped with digital tools can achieve. Bring your computers and we’ll provide the activists and the food. The d. school venue is perfectly designed to let the ideas flow. Come check it out!

Hackathon Schedule

9:30 am Registration and Networking 10:00 am Introductions

• Ben Rowswell, Cloud to Street Visit to Revolutionary Cairo: A Laboratory of Political Activism
• Saad Khan, Partner, CMEA Capital An Introduction to Hacktivism
• Ahmed Saleh, Co-Founder of Kifaya How Egyptian Activists Used Technology to Drive the Revolution

10:30 am Lightning Talks to Outline App Projects (5 minutes each)

• Abdallah Helmy, A Mobile Phone App for Political Mobilization (from Cairo)
• Farhaan Ladhani, A Mesh Network for Egypt
• Nelly Corbel, Web-Training Election Monitors (from Cairo)
• Vivek Srinivasan, Crowdsourcing Constitutional Negotiations
• Ahmed Boguta, Monitoring the Egyptian Parliament (from Cairo)

11:15 am Organize Unconference & Hackathon (facilitated by Dave Nielsen)

• Developers choose an application to work on, or their own related project
• Activists in Cairo available by videoconference until 12:00 pm

12:30 pm Luncheon 1:00 pm Developers announce projects they have chosen to work on 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm:  Hackathon working groups 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm:  Unconference panels 5:00 pm:  Presentation of Progress to Date 5:30 pm:  Next Steps: On to Cairo

• How this community can help Egypt’s democracy activists going forward

6:00 pm:  Hackathon continues Location: the d.school @ Stanford (map) Escondido Mall Building 550 - Hasso Plattner Institute of Design Stanford, CA  94305

Directions: Enter from the alleyway between Escondido Mall and Panama Street between Buildings 540 and 550 (map)

Organizers:

• Sarina Beges, Liberation Technologies, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford
• Joshua Cohen, Professor of political science, philosophy, and law, Liberation Technologies, Stanford
• Saad Khan, Partner, CMEA Capital, Hacktivist 
• Sam King, Code the change
• Mark Nelson, Persuasive Technology Lab, Peace Innovation Lab, Stanford
• Dave Nielsen, CloudCamp
• Margarita Quihuis, Persuasive Technology Lab, Peace Innovation Lab, Stanford
• Ben Rowswell, @cloudtostreet
• Vivek Srinivasan, Liberation Technologies, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford
• Terry Winograd, Computer Science Department, Liberation Technologies, d.school, Stanford

Help Us Spread the Word

Spread the word by clicking the following links:

• Twitter:  Send out a tweet!  "I just registered for http://hackforegypt.eventbrite.com #hackforegypt #cloudtostreet#"
• Plancast
• Upcoming
• Facebook

For more information, please contact hackforegypt@gmail.com

We love challenges and think they're a great way to harness the collective intelligence out there. To that end, we're running a mini-challenge centered on peace innovation journalism running on Facebook Groups.

The Peace Innovation Journalism Challenge

Goal: Find the best ideas for how journalism can contribute to conflict solving? Is there a role for journalism beyond being an observer and "outsider" reporter?

Recent developments in Egypt have made this very timely, and the challenge inspires brainstorming about questions like the following:

• How can journalism contribute to conflict solving, i.e. bringing peace to the world?
• How can journalism act as an agent of change towards peace?
• How could technologies be used as a journalistic tool in conflict solving?

Rules of the game:

• Post your IDEA on the Peace Innovation Journalism Challenge Facebook Group.
• People can COMMENT on your idea and build on it to improve it.
• You can VOTE UP an IDEA with the LIKE button.
• NEW IDEAS need to be in a NEW POST. NEW IDEAS are not to be thrown into the comment thread of another idea.
• SHOW US YOUR PROGRESS: Post blog articles, slideshare presentations,videos and any other artifacts in the group.

GO!

About the Stanford Peace Innovation Lab
At the Stanford Peace Innovation Lab we are working on a new approach to conflict studies that focuses on real world interventions that leverage insights into technology and human interaction to reduce conflict and precursors to conflict.

We do research in collaboration, open innovation, social computing, persuasive technology & the potential of social networks to change society for the better. All of our research projects are in the field interventions that are data driven, effectively incubating peace startups using our access, resources and prestige as capital.

Dacher Keltner, executive director of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, shares insights from the new science of touch: compassionate communication, touch therapies, and proof that “to touch is to give life.”

The social functions of touch include:

• feelings of reward
• reciprocity
• signals safety
• soothes
• releases oxytocin
• promotes cooperation

The results of Touch Therapy are even more significant:

• Increases weight of premature babies by 47%
• Reduces depression in patients with Alzheimers
• Doubles likelihood children will speak in class
• Boosts library use and enjoyment

From a persuasive technology point of view, we wonder if iPhone apps can be created that can create feelings of well being through the multi-touch interface.  Your thoughts?

There's a convergence of thinking going on out there - from Chris Anderson's talk on the power of web video to Tim Ferriss's education hacks and John Hagel's insights on Gaussian vs Power Law view of the world to Colvin's Talent is Overrated to the Quantified Self movement to Game Layers on Reality to BJ's insights on persuasive technology.

New Technology creates new possibilities for solving problems. Now more than ever we have the ability to measure what we're doing and get real time feedback in a way that is engaging and compelling. We can actually experiment and figure out what works much faster.  But you need to have the appropriate world view to see the problems clearly. (See Hagel) And then you need a methodology (or a hack) to figure out the problems worth solving that require the least amount of effort with the greatest result (there's that 80/20 law you know.)  (See Ferriss)

And then you need to design a bitchin game that gives you an epic win.  (See Jane McGonigal)

In this video, Chris Anderson talks how web video powers global innovation.  My big take-away, which he didn't really point out, is that people rapidly learn by watching, doing, imitating.  Writing and mathematic symbols and equations are 1.0 technologies that scale certain types of knowledge.  Film, television, video, web video - visual technologies, scale demonstrative education.  Show me how to do it.  Show tens of millions how to do it.   

Taking a page from Tim Ferriss, video lets you study and learn what works and what doesn't work in great detail.  Then you can focus on the key techniques that really matter, thus creating a delibate practice (Geoff Colvin).  Examining video of your own practice gives you a feedback loop, and a series of your performances lets you measure your progress. (Quantified Self).   Your desire to improve (motivation) coupled with cheap, easy-to-use technology (ability) plus an inspirational video (the trigger) drives you to new habits and behavior change. (Fogg)

Take the Deep Dive:

http://www.quantifiedself.com/ - 'know thyself' through self measurement

Geoff Colvin- Talent is Overrated - deliberate practice through intrinsic motivation

John Hagel - The Power of Power Laws - Do you see the world as a bell curve or as a power curve?

Tim Ferriss' Blog - How to Do Anything in Less Time & Effort with bigger results

BJ Fogg's Behavior Model - how to get people to do what you want (through technology)

Jane McConigal - Reality isn't Broken - Game Designers Can Fix It - Get your epic win!

At the Persuasive Technology Lab, we love games and game mechanics because they really do change people's behavior.  Motivation, Ability, Trigger - BJ's behavior model - is encapsulated perfectly in a compelling and addictive game.  There's no question in my mind that she who leverages game mechanics will have the biggest impact (and probably make a pile of money to boot).  

Seth Priebatch gives his take on The Game Layer on Top of the World as he helps us see that we're already being manipulated and motivated to do things by games hidden in plain site.

Jesse Schell, game designer and faculty member of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University gives a fascinating talk on games as a form of persuasive technology.  The video is 28 minutes long and is worth the time.

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His key points:

Unexpected Successes in the Game World:

Facebook is an unexpected disrupter in game design.  

• There are more Farmville players on Facebook than there are Twitter accounts
• More money is made through lead generation on Facebook's social games than through direct payments

Club Penguin, a kids MMOG, was acquired by Disney for $350 million.  ClubPenguin is persuasive in that it's free to play and accumulate virtual money.  BUT if you want to spend your virtual money, you need to be a paid monthly subscriber ($6/mo).  Parents are persuaded to pay the monthly subscription based on the amount of accumulated virtual money.

Wii Fit has generated $1 billion in revenue.

Webkinz combines real stuffed animals with an online counterpart.  The psychological hook is that the stuffed animal comes to life online.  

MafiaWars is a psychology driven text based game that has generated $100 million so far.  Unlike other video games, it's grounded in Facebook and playing with your real friends, leveraging psychological triggers such as competition, and time invested to re-engage players.

Schell then acts the rhetorical question "who is brainstorming for new psychological angles?"  One of the threads that these new games have in common is how they breakthrough to reality.  In the past, game design was rooted in creating fantasy worlds.  These new social games are based in a realism different from visual or photo realism.

Guitar Hero is anchored to reality by the player using a physical guitar.

Webkinz connects the virtual pet with a real stuffed animal.

Marketers are realizing that people hunger for authenticity and reality and have tailored their products and advertising messages to suit, in part as  a backlash against the last 20 years of technology.  People feel technology and modern life has cut them off from nature, what is authentic and real.

Schell posits that perhaps part of Avatar's success is the possibility of using technology to reconnect or provide a doorway to a more authentic, real life.

Increasingly game-attributes are creeping into a wide variety of activities and devices from geocaching (a walk in nature turned into a game) to the dashboard on a Ford Hybrid car where a virtual plant grows as you drive more slowly to the classroom where Lee Sheldon at the University of Indiana has replaced grades with experience points and student progress is tracked through leaderboards.  

Schell then walks the audience through a scenario where, through the power of ubiquitous sensor networks, people earn points for activities they partake in everyday life - from brushing their teeth to the books they've read to riding the bus. How will this constant tracking of our every action change us?  What will our grandchildren think of us? Perhaps, Schell ponders, we may want to become better people.

As soon as Carlos Miranda Levy reached the field hospitals in Haiti, it became apparent that some sort of mobile medical apps would be needed to track patient records.

The process of identifying the need, brainstorming potential solutions and putting together a field trial happened through Facebook wall comments, Twitter, Email, Google Docs and a Gmail group, MedApps4Haiti.

The timeline is as follows:

Friday Jan 22, 2010

8:34 am @carlosmiranda We need someone to research the current iphone apps for managing and treating patients, so docs can use, don't have internet to do myself

8:59 am @msquihuis 10-50 iphone donations needed to collect patient data in Haiti DM if you can help #haiti

11:35 am Carlos Miranda Levy posts a note on his Facebook wall:

We're setting up a protocol for gathering patient data quickly in the field hospital and improvised tents. The iPhone came up in our discussion as a convenient mobile data entry device. Can you help us find donations for at least 50 iPhones, at least 10 to start? We can set it up so that they are formally received by one of the foundations (One Race Global Film Foundation, Yele, etc.) or universities we have contact with (Harvard, Stanford, UNIBE, UNAPEC, etc.) Do you know someone who knows someone who can be called? Can you help getting some? We can document in video, photos and text, development, deployment, usage, on a daily basis.

Margarita Quihuis 

I've got two requests into Apple right now... Enoch, any insights on relevant iphone apps that can be used in the field? Carlos needs help researching the apps and he can't do it effectively there due to low bandwidth net connection.

January 22 at 11:37am · 

Enoch Choi 

you could just make notes. or use a database app. i'll look into it. most iphone apps i know are for data review rather than entry. they display data that has been previously entered in a EMR with a traditional terminal with client server software.

January 22 at 11:38am

Hansel Johnson 

Not sure about what all you need in terms of core features. Take a look at: 

https://health.google.com/ health

you can use one Google account and create many patient records under the same account (bottom left: caring for someone?) and track each record separately. But you're going to need net access.

January 22 at 1:05pm

Enoch Choi 

net access is $16/minute via satellite internet. not an economically feasible solution. wish google gears could do this offline with nexus one's but it doesn't. Instead, you have to use a database solution that works offline

January 22 at 2:59pm

Hansel Johnson 

I know time is of the essence so you may need to go with some off-line solution for now. I found this: 

http://groundcontrol.com/H aiti_Satellite_Internet.ht m?gclid=CLbb0tS1uZ8CFRKfnAodxjZw0g

Looks like they're already in Haiti and on board with the ability to deliver equipment to setup a connection. For about 20K you could set up unlimited access for 2 months (2Mb-down/1Mb-up).

January 22 at 6:17pm

Carlos Miranda Levy 

We have wifi at the camp site we're operating right now, this is supposed to grow to support a large number of patients (about 1000 at a time).

Jon Katz is extending it.

Although, the specs we are putting together include the ability to work offline and then transfer data or upload it to a server at a later time.

January 22 at 8:03pm

Alejandro Miranda 

we are building a requeriments document, anybody thats interested in helpin, give me ur email to share the document with you

January 22 at 8:29pm

Carlos Miranda Levy 

Alejandro, I suggest you make it a Google Doc, so it's visible and available to everyone, even as a draft.These people and so many others can provide plenty of advise.

January 22 at 8:35pm

Margarita Quihuis 

Carlos - I have a tech, Anthony Papillon (@cajuntechie) who leads the OpenEMR HQ and Advanced Data Concepts teams forhttp://www.openemrhq.com/. He has offered to help.

January 22 at 10:30pm · 

Margarita Quihuis 

Carlos - I've submitted a friend recommendation on FB between you and Anthony. Also emailed him your posting.

January 22 at 10:38pm · 

Enoch Choi 

Randy Roberson has an open source EMR he's installed, but i think it's PC based. not mobile phone

January 23 at 12:30am

Amandeep Singh Grewal 

Carlos: I have a solution that you can use on any phone (supporting java of course). You can collect data by using thie customized data gathering app. I used it for my forest project that you know of. It is a small client app resides on any low end nokia phone. all you have to do is specify the fields you want to have. It will send data using ... See More

January 23 at 2:11am

Carlos Miranda Levy 

Awsome, Aman. I will have Alejandro and Seth contact you.

January 23 at 5:46am

Enoch Choi 

Aman, Carlos, can you email me with deets too? enochchoi1@yahoo.com i'll be manning a shipping container clinic at the Four Square Church 2 minutes from the US Embassy

January 23 at 8:34am

Amandeep Singh Grewal 

@ Enoch: Yes sure
@ Carlos: Will wait for details. As soon as I have them the work will start here. Send details of what you want asap

January 23 at 8:39am

Carlos Miranda Levy 

Aman, I sent e-mail with other contacts. will cc enoch

January 23 at 11:06am

10:23 pm @CajunTechie @carlosmiranda is the point person on the ground for the data collection need. #haiti #help #patientdata

10:31 pm @CajunTechie I'm taking you up on the offer & pinged on you Facebook- Carlos Miranda Levy (@carlosmiranda) has a thread on reqs for the app

Jan 23 2010

9 am: Alejandro Miranda jr starts working with Seth from Harvard on defining specs for patient registry data system.

11 am:Laura Diaz starts working on a patient registry, taking info manually and writing it a notebook.

12:30pm - Laura's sister does rounds with the doctors, reviewing/completing patient registry.

Jan 24 2010

10am - start of e-mail exchange with international IT, social work and relief work experts to define, implement patient registry digital system.

Jan 25 2010

9am - Laura enters data collected by hand the day before by hand on a Google Docs spreadsheet and shares it with the international group working on drafting specs (Harvard, Stanford, India, United Nations, Dominican Republic Ministry of Health, UNIBE university, etc.).

4pm - Reviewed patient registry done by Laura and took some patient pictures to improve/update/test it.

Jan 25 2010

11:45 am MedApps4Haiti google group created

Jan 26 2010

1:58pm @carlosmiranda iPhone developers needed for patient registry application extensions in the DR, Haiti and/or USA

4pm Meeting at local World Health Organization / Panamerican Health Organization headquarters with UNIBE and Harvard and local UN Health cluster. Laura, Alejandro Miranda and myself attend. Darwin Muñoz from UNIBE, Dr. Elizabeth Cote from Harvard, and Dr. Alejandro Báez from UN Health Cluster and Dr. Román where present.

8:46 pm RT @CarlosMiranda: meeting World Health Organization, Harvard and Unibe to coordinate patient registry system to track earthquake survivors

Jan 27 2010

8:47 am RT @CarlosMiranda: iPhone developers needed for patient registry application extensions in the DR, Haiti and/or USA#haiti #help #iphone

Jan 28 2010

8:03 pm @carlosmiranda installing www.caretools.com iChart iPhone app to collect+manage patient data of earthquake survivors in #Haiti

11:30pm I meet by chance with UNICEF and UNCHR personnel and share with them our patient registry template and pilot data from the field and invite them to comment on it.

Jan 29 2010

3pm I meet with Harvard's team to discuss the iphone application for patient data gathering.

January 29 at 11:21pm · Comment · Like · See Wall-to-Wall

Carlos Miranda Levy 

field testing actually started last night. will report today

Sat at 1:16am

Carlos Miranda Levy 

it is working like a charm. got caretools to customize it to include special field for data gathering in the field :) including picture taking from within the app :)

Sun at 4:39am

Carlos Miranda Levy 

in a cpl of hours we were able to collect more than 100 patient info.

Sun at 5:11am

Margarita Quihuis 

Excellent! Enoch - Carlos and I are organizing a Relief 2.0 workshop/1 day conf @Stanford end of February. Will you be around? Can you present?

Sun at 11:13am · 

Enoch Choi 

depends on the day, if i can make it(not in clinic), yes. i really want to talk to Carols

Sun at 2:20pm

Carlos Miranda Levy 

Check out the Video: Collecting Patient Info in Haiti using iPhones.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05RUiCRRlTo

10 hours ago

Jan 31 2010

11:15 am @msquihuis iChart modified by Caretools- includes special field for data gathering in the field including picture taking from within the app #haiti

11:16 am @msquihuis iChart #iphone app successfully used to collect 100 patient records #haiti field hospital #medapps4haiti @carlosmiranda#help

Feb 1 2010

Dr. Elizabeth Cote, from Harvard Humane Initiative, collects patient data at Fond Parisien, Haiti using iPhone and iCharts from www.CareTools.com. The developers were kind enough to customize the form in less than a week to support fields and info required to comply with international disaster data collection standards.

Feb 2 2010

Enoch Choi thanks to Jonathan Manis Senior Vice President, CIO Sutter Health's "Haiti Donation Committee" for 5 iPhones and iChart licenses (http://www.caretools.com/) to plug into the Haiti national EMR, and for Steven Lane for soliciting the donation and leading our Haiti EMR efforts!

www.caretools.com

www.caretools.com

Developed specifically for your iPhone and iPod Touch platforms as a digital medical assistant to manage patient records with:

A group of volunteer at improvised field hospital in Fond Parisien, Haiti, found an old piano in an empty church on a short break from taking care of wounded survivors of the earthquake in Haiti and sing with hope from their honest hearts. This is the real Haiti, today. A country that sings with hope, together, even after the terrible earthquake. This is the face and heart of Haiti, today and always. Not the sensationalist, arranged pictures journalists get paid big money to fabricate.

A report on the ground in Haiti from Carlos Miranda Levy, a colleague, Reuters Digital Vision Fellow alum and friend.  Carlos starting doing what he does best - providing help, his intellect, resources and aid to the people of Haiti.

Haiti does not need soldiers. What Haiti needs from the world is a genuine desire to help and work hand in hand with its people.  As long as outside assistance continue to come with an attitude of arrogance and superiority, we will continue to  perpetuate an us versus them divide where we know better and the Haitian people are viewed as helpless and incapable of rebuilding their own country.

Haiti is a deserving nation full of capable people and community organizations. We should be working with them to rebuild the country from within and from the bottom up, not from the outside and from top down.

At a meeting of volunteers exploring the risks of resource allocation amidst reports of violence and the various alternatives for action, Jon Katz, a person with decades’ long track record working effectively in remote communities, remained silent during the course of the discussion and then offered these remarks:

"What we should do is first go where people are and convene a meeting with them. Ask them what they want and have them be participants in the transportation, receipt and distribution of aid. Let them coordinate the aid and distribution.  Have them provide security themselves and you will find that security will cease to be an issue, since the people have assumed responsibility for their own security. "

The Yele Foundation representative provided these related remarks:

"Treat people with dignity. If you treat people like animals in need, there will always be some who behave like animals and the rest will be left out. But if you treat them with dignity, they will behave with dignity. We have throughout Haiti, community organizations capable of doing the field work and going the extra mile needed to be effective. "

If houses are going to be built, they should be constructed by the collaborative efforts of the Haitian community, by involving Haitian students in engineering and architecture, not by bringing in foreign military engineers and contractors.  It is important to bring the reconstruction process inside the community to strengthen the community and spur sustainable development.

If it's for the community, we work with the community.

In this way we build capacity and possibly, this group of students can then create their own office of engineers and architects and do similar projects on their own, generating wealth, employment and progress.

Carlos is a social entrepreneur and Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, sponsored by Google and Reuters. Considered by CNN one of Latin America's 20 most influential people on the Internet. Founder of CIVILA.com, Educar.org and BibliotecasVirtuales.com.
www.twitter.com/CarlosMiranda