event schedule

• 11:30 am Live demos and poster session 1 [box lunch and refreshments]
• 1:00 pm Opening Remarks
• 1:10 pm Moca - Internationally recognized open-source mobile care platform
Visit team blog. One of the most significant problems facing developing nations today is a lack of expert medical care. Moca puts expert medical care just a touch away. Moca is a non-profit organization that offers a simple-to-use intelligent agent for rural health workers that enables integration with any portable medical device, and seamlessly connects health workers to remote medical professionals. When strong connectivity is not available, Moca solves the problem of queuing, and provides an on-phone intelligent decision support and training system for the isolated health care worker. Moca has partnered with six universities across Southeast Asia to implement our system, and GE and McKesson are actively interested in using our technology. A pilot study is scheduled for June 2009 in Capiz, Philippines. The Filipino government is considering legislation to finance Moca deployment across the Philippines as their primary telemedicine solution. Moca will enter Africa after penetrating Southeast Asia as the champion telemedicine system.
• 1:25 pm Dinube - Mobile cloud banking for the unbanked MIT$100K BPC Runner Up, Mobile Track
Visit team blog. Mobile payments have been identified by many as the way to bring services to the unbanked in emerging economies. In addition to the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced projects to bring mobile payments and banking to poorer regions across the globe. Most recently, the Inter-American Development Bank also said it will support the development and implementation of mobile-banking systems for unbanked people in Latin America.
DINUBE is a mobile-enabled, cloud-based payment and transaction platform targeted at the under-banked population that is fully interoperable with network carriers and financial institutions.
DINUBE will make money - and an impact.
• 1:40 pm Celedu - Mobile gaming for literacy in Indian rural villages
Visit team blog. Celedu aims to help the next billion people at the bottom of the pyramid by increasing their living standards through education and literacy. Our mission is to provide a mobile platform for literacy and language education through a game interface to distribute our project partner's, ReadingWise/DevAlt, language-learning content while scalable platform to other educational applications. Celedu is deploying its service to rural villages in the developing world starting in India, leveraging a community-learning model to maximize learning potential.
• 1:55 pm CiviRep - Mobile citizen crime reporting through mapped crowdsourcing
Visit team blog. CiviRep will allow citizens to report crimes via SMS and maps this information to provide customized reports for the government and client organizations. This enables faster and smarter feedback mechanisms for more informed decision-making in rapid response situations. This technology allows for the development of risk mitigation and management strategies, as well as message broadcasting to citizens and agents. 'Civirep' intends to provide a 'voice' to citizens and empower them with the freedom to speak out against violence.
• 2:10 pm Zaca - Mobile rural market prices platform for empowering farmers
Visit team blog. For farmers among the rural poor, the difference between a little food on the table or none at all can depend on the the mercies of weather, the whims of a middleman, and the uncertainties of the market. zaca is a mobile-based technology that seeks to improve rural livelihoods by providing a platform for resource-strapped farmers to 1) aggregate produce information and 2) query current and historical market price of produce. By making this information accessible via widely available SMS technology, data transparency is imposed on the market, curtailing the opportunities for farmers to be exploited. The project has been baptised 'zaca' in tribute to the locale of our first deployment, the state of Zacatecas, in northern Mexico.
• 2:25 pm Hammock - Mobile logistics management for reducing supply chain friction in developing countries MIT$100K BPC Semifinalist
Visit team blog. Hammock provides mobile logistics management solutions to support users allowing them to relax in the comfort provided by our form fitting product solutions. The Hammock mobile service optimizes the dispatch and delivery process of goods particularly in developing countries through improved efficiency in planning, delivery to shipper pairing, and shipment tracking using low cost, cell phone-based solutions.
• 2:40 pm n3eight@MIT - Building a next generation mobile technologies incubator for bottom up development
Visit team blog. The goal of n3eight team is to establish a world-class mobile technology incubator at MIT, that would enable students to create self-sustaining ventures that would address real-world problems in the developing world. The n3eight solution will provide a user-friendly web-based platform that would address the needs of our key stakeholders, project partners, students, academia and the nextlab staff by 1- Enabling the project management process for all nextlab projects, starting from submission by partners to their respective completion, 2- Establishing a self-sustaining business model that would bring project partners and other industry leaders together to contribute towards successful deployment and venture creation of viable technologies.
• 2:55 pm Announcement of nextlab merit awards
• 3:15 pm Live demos and poster session 2 [snacks and refreshments]
• 4:00 pm Announcement of nextlab people's choice awards
• 4:30 pm Event wrap up