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The Technology Salon is an intimate, informal, and in person, discussion between information and communication technology experts and international development professionals, with a focus on both:

• technology's impact on donor-sponsored technical assistance delivery, and
• private enterprise driven economic development, facilitated by technology.

Our meetings are lively conversations, not boring presentations - PowerPoint is banned and attendance is capped at 15 people - and frank participation with ideas, opinions, and predictions is actively encouraged through the Chatham House Rule.

The Technology Salon is sponsored by the UN Foundation's Technology Partnership with the Vodafone Foundation as a way to increase the discussion and dissemination of information and communication technology's role in expanding solutions to long-standing international development challenges.

Recent Activity

• Key National HIS Success Technology: Change Management
  In this month's Technology Salon, National Health Information Systems: Who Uses What, Where?, we discussed a recently-completed study by Vital Wave Consulting that surveyed the global landscape of national HIS… By Wayan Vota | Comments (5)

• National Health Information Systems: Who Uses What, Where?
  It often seems that there are as many health information systems (HIS) as there are governments - from custom legacy systems to new web-based applications. But which governments are using… By Wayan Vota | Comments (2)

• Engaging Electrical Engineers in International Development
  Last week I had the privilege to participate in the Humanitarian Technology Challenge - a call to action for the IEEE membership to get engaged with the multiple issues facing… By Wayan Vota | Comments (2)

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