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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 25 Number 4
Winter 2006
25th Anniversary Issue

SPECIAL ISSUE: 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF IEEE-SSIT AND IEEE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY MAGAZINE

DEPARTMENTS

3 President’s Message
50 Book Review
53 2006 Year-End Index

SPECIAL ISSUE FEATURES

4 INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE

5 Notes for a History of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
Karl D. Stephan

15 On the Presumed Neutrality of Technology
Norman Balabanian

26 COMMENTARY: Balabanian Bears Thoughtful Rereading Today
Stephen H. Cutcliffe

28 COMMENTARY: The Fate of Human Technological Civilization
Byron Newberry

30 Controversy and Achievement: History of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
Terri Bookman

40 The Future of the SSIT and the State of the Engineering Profession
Brian M. O’Connell

FEATURES

43 Are Opportunities Equal for Women in the IT Workplace? Observations from the Indian Software Industry*
P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan

*Refereed article.
Cover Image: Stock Illustration RF/Getty Images.

Volume 25 Number 4 Winter 2006 25th Anniversary Issue

Volume 25 Number 4
Winter 2006
25th Anniversary Issue