Shortly after I graduate from university with my bachelor’s degree, a friend and I moved to the Republic of the Marshal Island (click here for pictures) where we participated in a program called Technology Consulting in the Global Community. We worked with a hospital on Ebeye, an extremely isolated island out in the pacific ocean. It is near the Ronald Regan Balistic Missile Defense Test Site, and active military base where my friend and I lived during our time there. The goal of the project was to help expand the “partner’s” (usually a hospital or a school) ability to make use of available technology resources. Anyway, we wrote a paper, kept blogs, took a bunch of pictures, had a great time, and I felt, did something for them.
I recently found out that my picture is currently in the banner for the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009). If you click on the link yourself, there are four or five possible banners so you may have to click a few times before I come up. You can also just look below:
You will also notice in the bottom left that the keynote speaker is Bill Gates. Although I am not a speaker or anything like that, I feel good about being the conference’s poster boy. The picture is of me trying to map out the hospital’s network. Hanging from the cieling are two routers. I spent two days trying to figure out which cable went to which computer and how all the four or five routers were connected together. I am not sure they still have the network map I made, but I hope they do. It was very hard to diagnose a problem with someone’s computer when you didn’t know where any of the cables in the cieling went.
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