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Telehealth in Sub-Saharan Africa
The sudden influx of modern communications in Sub-Saharan Africa has opened up exciting opportunities for humanitarian engineering – a field that many engineers associate with installation of water and sanitation facilities in rural areas – to adapt mobile communications technologies to address the urgent health needs of this impoverished region.
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Volume 19 Number 2
Summer 2000
Summer 2000 Issue

Departments

    3 Conference Announcement
    ISTAS 2000

    4 Candidates' Forum
    Candidates for IEEE Division VI Delegate/Director

    9 Call for Papers - Special Issue on Engineering Ethics

    31 - Aarne Vesilind to Assume T&S Editorship in 2001;
    SSIT Announces IEEE Millenium Medallists;
    New SSIT AdCom Members Elected


Features

    10   Protecting Privacy in the Cyber Era*
    Issues related to privacy and technology go to the heart of concepts of individual rights, corporate power, the role of government, and law enforcement needs. The author considers various means to protect individual privacy and concludes that encryption may be the best solution.
    Jennifer C. Davis

Special Feature

    23 Controlling Technology: Should We Rely on the Marketplace?
    If the direction of technological development is socially determined, as this author asserts, what means for controlling technology are available, and how is such control to be exercised?
    Norman Balabanian



    * Refereed Article

Volume 19 Number 2 Summer 2000 Summer 2000 Issue

Volume 19 Number 2
Summer 2000
Summer 2000 Issue