Our crew will be blogging and tweeting from the Global Health Conference annual meeting which is running today through Saturday. Our posts (GHC36) will be focused on the conference and you can follow us via twitter here:

http://twitter.com/jaspaldesign
http://twitter.com/kwantada

I thought I would kick off the conference blogging with some fun stuff. Heather LaGarde, IntraHealth and company have put together a phenomenal website linking together music + open source tech for health, check out the below and check out the website to hear the winner of their remix contest which was announced tonight at an event at GHC36. Some of the remixes of the song “Wake Up – It’s Africa Calling” are beautiful and powerful, make sure you tune in (one of my favorites was the 2nd place remix by Danny Hajek):

“Global non-profit IntraHealth International has launched a major campaign to raise funds and awareness for the IntraHealth OPEN initiative, a program created to address the most critical health issues in Africa by putting the latest open source technologies directly in the hands of health workers.”

“The campaign is rolling out the release of a charity album in partnership with Grammy Award-winning artist and internationally acclaimed humanitarian Youssou N’Dour.  The album titled “OPEN Remix” features remixes of N’Dour’s song “Wake Up – It’s Africa Calling” by Nas, Peter Buck of R.E.M., Duncan Sheik and other headline artists from around the world and will be released by major distributors including Rhapsody, iLike and Amazon MP3 as free downloads – a global remix contest will be launched with Indaba Music in April.”

“IntraHealth has been collaborating with African governments and private institutions to design and apply open source solutions to strengthen their ability to use health information for strategic health policy and planning.   Using mobile phones, pdas and taking advantage of growing connectivity across Africa, the initiative aims to increase fluency in open source systems and help support a new generation of eHealth workers, technology professionals and national leaders in Africa who understand, customize and apply open technologies to improve health.”