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Mobile technology is already bringing healthcare information to the masses via the MedlinePlus mobile site easily accessed on one's cell phone. More advances on the horizon mean more healthcare access and quicker availability of information.

Mobile technology, in the form of mobile phones, can help address healthcare issues, not only in developing countries but countries like the US too

Carrie, this article discusses using the smart phone apps and their ability to access the Internet to help those who don't have access to a face-to-face doctor. One of my articles this week mentioned an even more advanced way of long-distance healthcare: pacemakers hooked up to the Internet allows for a doctor to remotely restart a patient's heart if it stops working. These are things that only a decade ago might have seemed completely impossible yet here they are being used in a relatively wide-spread way.

I can't wait for this service to be widely available and EFFECTIVE for everyone! I wouldn't have to sacrifice adjusting my work hours or taking a day off to get a doctor's appointment! I also wouldn't have to wait for hours in the clinic's lobby for getting a 5-10 mins consultation.

mobile technology transforms communities leading to social change

[Finally, I get something to Share properly...]

A mobile technology that says it tracks skin conditions.

While the article makes it sound like this app will be primarily used by self-conscious women, I imagine there are already quite a few cosmetic companies paying attention. Such an app would be great for tracking clinical trials.

Continuing with the theme of my other bookmarks, this is a lengthy but accessible report by the US Center for International Media Assistance on how mobile devices are changing society and information seeking habits. I don't know about you, but I would have no idea where to dine out were it not for my Yelp app!

Mobile phones are becoming more and more numerous across the African continent. I found out about this competition a year or two ago, and thought it was really neat because it shows innovators designing unique apps to help solve social problems within their communities.

This is a really cool find...I volunteered with the Lubuto Library Project (http://www.lubuto.org) and there are some amazing things being done in and for Africa, as this article highlights. I also hadn't heard of Hilary Clinton's Civil Society 2.0 initiative...I'm interested to explore more about that to see what other sorts of work is developing.

Based on subjective research and personal interests, I am thinking about gathering information on the ways in which mobile devices and apps are changing day-to-day behaviour for my final SI project. This European consortium - comprised of the Italian National Research Council, Cardiff University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Athens, Institut Eurecom, the University of Oxford, and the University of Aveiro - "explores how social networks can be exploited for the delivery and acquisition of content, including issues of security and trust". They also specialize in studying how "mobile peer to peer" networks are changing the ways in which people interact and learn.

From the website: "In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship. Our goal is to promote an online dialogue amongst scholars and the public about contemporary approaches to studying media. In Media Res provides a forum for more immediate critical engagement with media at a pace closer to how we experience mediated texts. Each weekday, a different scholar curates a 30-second to 3-minute video clip/visual image slideshow accompanied by a 300-350-word impressionistic response. We use the title "curator" because, like a curator in a museum, you are repurposing a media object that already exists and providing context through your commentary, which frames the object in a particular way. The clip/comment combination are intended both to introduce the curator's work to the larger community of scholars (as well as non-academics who frequent the site) and, hopefully, encourage feedback/discussion from that community."

One of the fun articles I read on this website was "Yes We Can; Even Though We Say Knope." Here's a link: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2012/06/04/yes-we-can-even-though-we-say-knope Another really interesting one is "Curating the City" (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2012/05/25/curating-city), which talks about new mobile app, which allows people to explore a geographical map of Cleveland which provides embedded history for various locations. Supposedly a new update will even allow people to provide their own tours and stories.

This is a pdf slide presentation of a study that Google and IPSOS completed in 2011 based on some of the ways in which smartphones and wireless devices are changing daily behaviours. While there is not a great deal of analysis and interpretation in this study, some of the statistics that have been gathered are staggering.