The Youth Congress in Information Technology (Y4iT) is an annual IT conference organized by the University of the Philippines Information Technology Training Center (UPITTC). Aimed at college students and young professionals, the Y4iT is an enabling event for the youth. It aims to recognize young Filipinos as key drivers in the highly dynamic IT industry. Various relevant, intriguing and exciting new IT topics are presented and discussed during every Y4iT congress. Y4iT is already in its 8th year and has become one of the most highly anticipated and biggest youth IT convention in the country, attracting close to 20,000 participants in 4 days. Y4it is scheduled on 14,15,16 & 17 Sept 2010. (Tue.-Fri.) at the University Theater, UP Film Institute, and Ang Bahay ng Alumni in UP Diliman, Quezon City.
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2010 Philippines Youth Congress in Information Technology (Y4iT) on September 14,15,16, & 17 2010
Friday, July 9th, 2010Announcement: 3rd SEMINAR ON HEALTH INFORMATICS
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
From the National Telehealth Center
Date: Saturday, June 26, 2010
Time: 7:00am – 5:00pm
Location: College of Dentistry Auditorium, University of the Philippines Manila
Street: Pedro Gil St. Cor. Taft Avenue,
City/Town: Manila, Philippines
Coming from the widely successful first (April 
and second (May 21) Seminars on Health Informatics, the UP Manila National Telehealth Center is inviting more health and IT professionals and students to participate in the third offering at the UP College of Dentistry Auditorium on June 26th, 2010.
This third seminar aims to offer the same content as the first but with additional talks by professionals working in health IT. It also promises to provide participants with concrete action items that they can pursue to further sharpen their knowledge and skills in health informatics.
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First IHI (International Health Informatics) Conference to Explore Medical Informatics
Saturday, May 1st, 2010From: http://membernet.acm.org/#IHI-2010
ACM is proud to sponsor a new conference, whose goal is to become the premier community forum for health informatics researchers and practitioners. The ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2010) will focus on the application of computing principles and technology to address problems in healthcare, public health, the delivery of healthcare services, and consumer health, as well as topics related to social and ethical issues. Technical contributions, including papers and demonstration proposals, are due on June 4. For submission instructions and a complete list of possible topics, please visit the Call for Papers on the conference web site. IHI 2010 takes place November 11 to 12 in Washington, DC.
For more details visit: http://ihi2010.sighi.org/
Session on FLOSS in health care (FLOSS-HC) being organized at the Open World Forum
Friday, April 30th, 2010The Open World Forum (OWF) is the new global summit on Free/Open Source. On September 30 and October 1 2010, it will bring together in Paris decisions-makers from across the world to discuss the technological, business and social impact of open technologies, and to cross-fertilize initiatives in these areas.
A session on FLOSS in health care (FLOSS-HC): How to foster community building is being organized by Thomas Karopka and Alvin Marcelo.
Those interested may register at the wiki.
Visit the Open World Forum wiki for more details.
UP Manila National Telehealth Center conducts the Geolocate4Health contest
Friday, March 5th, 2010The University of the Philippines Manila National Telehealth Center is now conducting the Geolocate4Health contest.
The contest involves the use of Google Map Maker in mapping health care facilities such as:
1. government hospitals
2. private hospitals
3. rural health units/local health centers
4. lying-in clinics
5. barangay health stations
6. private clinics
7. special health facilities such as dialysis clinics, stand-alone laboratories and
radiology centers
8. blood banks
9. drugstores
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International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies – IWEEE 2010
Monday, October 19th, 2009IWEEE 2010 – International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies, February 10-12, 2010 – Las Palmas, Canary Islands (Spain)
“IWEEE brings together a multi-disciplinary team representing NGOs, Academia, Government, Church and Industry to share their experiences and to try to find ways to improve the lives of millions of human beings from the developing world.
IWEEE is not a pure technical conference. It will focus on the human factor and in raising awareness about the actual situation. We will discuss the tools that we can provide today to doctors and institutions to improve their habitants health and education”
Registration and accommodation’s information at: http://www.iweee.org
*IWEEE is a non-profit event. The resulting balance will be donated to charity.
Event: Global Conference on Open Source (GCOS) 2009 Update
Friday, October 9th, 2009“Open Source practitioners from around the world will attend the Global Conference on Open Source, 26 – 27 October 2009 in Jakarta“
Jakarta, 07 October 2009, The Global Conference on Open Source 2009 committee held a meeting on October 1 2009 at the Department of Communication & Information Technology’s office to finalize the latest data regarding preparations for the Global Conference on Open Source and the availability of domestic and foreign speakers.
Open source experts that have positively stated their availability to attend and speak at the conference representing governments’ perspective are; MAMPU (Malaysia): Modernizing Public Service Using Open Source, USA: The Importance of Document Format on Government Task, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam: Serving The Society Efficiently and Effectively, Ministry of Information and Communications, Republic of Indonesia: Legal and Smart Solution in Building National ICT Capability, and many more (for more information go to http://gcos.info).
Speakers representing the private sector that have also stated their availability are Sun Microsystems: Embrace and Extend: Making Open Source Technologies Complement Incumbent Technologies in the Enterprise, TELKOM: To Open source or Not To Open source: A CIO Strategy and Migration Methodology, IBM: Open Source Adoption in Enterprise, NTT: Big Surge in the Use of Open Source in Mission Critical Systems, and others (for more information go to http://gcos.info).
The academic track has also attracted distinguished speakers. Those attending are CNRS France: The Use of Open Source in the Grid Computing and Data Acquisition System in High Energy and Particle Physics Research Projects, SEAMOLEC: Prospect and Experience in using Open Source for Distance Learning, The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University: Open Source Software and Open Data in Biodiversity Research and Education.
GCOS 2009 will also be discussing other topics that include open source in communities and open source in the creative world.
The meeting has also mapped the committee’s preparations related to the workshops and exhibitions that are also part of GCOS 2009, which will be held on October 26-27 2009. The committee is currently preparing three workshops, which are: Character Animation using Blender, Open Source For Health/Medicine, and Network Analysis & troubleshooting @ enterprise.
There are three other events that will be held parallel to the Global Conference on Open Source, which are Asia Open Source workshop, POSS Network Workshop and IGOS Summit 3.
The day after GCOS ends, Oct 28, there will be a Free (Bebas) Software event: Richard M. Stallman, founder of the Free Software Movement and leader of development of the GNU operating system (with which the kernel Linux is typically used) will give a speech to explain the ethical and political ideas of free software, which are differ from the ideas of open source, and how GNU was developed to realize these ethical goals. The talk, entitled: The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System
This event will be held at the 3rd floor Auditorium, BPPT II Building, Jl. M.H. Thamrin 8, Jakarta on October 28 2009 at 09.00 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. InfoLinux Magazine will host this even, which is open for FREE to the general public.
Let us work together to make the Global Conference on Open Source 2009 a great success.
For more information regarding preparations, schedule and GCOS events please visit GCOS official website http://gcos.info.
Event: GNOME Asia Summit
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009Announcement From: GNOME.Asia
The GNOME.Asia Summit Vietnam Nov.20-22, 2009 in Ho-Chi-Minh-City is one of the top Free and Open Source Software events for developers, enterprises, officials and general users in Vietnam. Please join us!
- Learn more about GNOME, desktop applications and new mobile solutions.
- Take part in a FOSS course and get your own course certificate during the event.
- Participate in the install fest of new programs and make your computer faster and more secure.
- Meet us at the FOSS party and celebrate the fun of getting together with people from all over the world.
- Learn about job opportunities with global and local companies and get in touch with representatives.
The event brings together free and open source software projects from Asia and around the world. More than 500 multipliers from 10 countries are expected to participate in the summit, which is the first international community event of its kind in Vietnam. (more…)
Event: Helping others / Mozilla Service Week
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
From: The SourceForge.net Team
Helping others – it comes naturally to people who write open source
software. Now the Mozilla Foundation is trying to employ the power of the
community in a more direct and hands-on way during Mozilla Service Week
(http://mozillaservice.org/learn_more/volunteer/en_US).
During this week, Mozilla (and SourceForge) encourage you to volunteer in
your community. Tech savvy folks can apply their skills in a variety of
ways. Some ideas from the foundation:
. Teach senior citizens how to use the Web.
. Show a non-profit how to use social networking to grow its base of
supporters.
. Help install a wireless network at a school.
. Create Web how-to materials for a library’s computer cluster.
. Refurbish hardware for a local computer center.
. Update a non-profit organization’s web site.
Organizations and projects that need assistance can also register to get
help.
As a company and as individuals, we at SourceForge will be participating in
Mozilla Service Week. We encourage you to get out there in your own
community and make a difference!
Event: Open your Minds: Software Freedom Day 2009
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Open your Minds: Software Freedom Day 2009
Reference: Rick Bahague
Contact: secretariat@cp-union.com / 4134196 / 09178840096
www.cp-union.com/sfd09
Software Freedom Day (SFD), the largest ever grassroots event promoting and educating the public about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the Philippines, will be held on September 19, 2009 with registration starting at 8:00. This international event will be hosted by the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. SFD is an international affair that will be participated in by more than a thousand teams in over 90 countries worldwide, with the Philippine celebration marked by simultaneous events from Luzon to Mindanao that will also be simulcast over the internet.
The morning plenary sessions will introduce what FOSS and SFD is and run participants through its basics, and explain what Free and Open Culture is as the conceptual basis of this software movement. Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño will also provide an update on the FOSS Bill that they have sponsored and currently filed in Congress. The Computer Professionals’ Union (CPU), the main organizer of the event, will also be discussing the use of FOSS in social advocacy.
The latest versions of free operating systems and applications can be copied and written on a CD on site. There will also be fun games with exciting prizes as well as software freedom day t-shirts for sale during the event. High quality free software will be available for computers in the office and at home, even be well-polished games for the gaming enthusiasts.
Global participation has relatively doubled since 2008’s record of over 500 participating teams, with over 200 individuals having participated in last year’s celebration. Participants are expected to further increase this year, with more organizations and students from schools such as Adamson University, University of Santo Tomas, Philippine School for Business and Arts, Central Colleges of the Philippines, Asian Academy of Business and Computers and University of the Philippines pledging to participate this year.
The Software Freedom Day 2009 team is composed of CPU, the UST Computer Science Society as the hosts, AdU Computer Science Open Source University Meet-up, AdU Computer Science Society, AdU Web Development Team, Asian Academy of Business and Computers, Blender Users Group, Cybersercurity.Ph, Drupal Users Group, ICAII, Joomla Users Group, LAMP-Pilipinas, PHP Users Group, PUP Taguig Computer Society, Ruby Users Group, TXTPower!, Office of Rep. Teddy Casiño – Bayan Muna Partylist, and the University of the Philippines Linux Users Group.
Those who cannot attend the event but would like to view the live video broadcast may do so visiting http://www.cp-union.com/sfd09. For further information on SFD, visit the international website at http://www.softwarefreedomday.org and http://www.cp-union.com/sfd09 for the details of the local celebration.
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