The conference will provide a full perspective of cloud computing and SaaS from business value through integration and implementation and to the future of cloud computing. Presentations will include discussions about the practical realities of these technologies and feature end users, thought leaders, platform and service providers and other senior figures from the IT and Telecoms industry.

Google joins a number of high profile companies, CIO’s and senior decision makers speaking at the two day conference, including:
- Steven Yau, CIO, Walmart China
- Sunny Lee, CIO, Hong Kong Jockey Club
- Jeremy Godfrey, CIO, Hong Kong Government
- Susanna Shen, Head of Information Technology, The Hong Kong & China Gas Company Ltd
- Keith Lam, Systems Manager, MTR Corporation
- Simone Brunozzi, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
- Donie Lochan, Asia Pacific IT Practice Leader, Bain & Company
- Franklin Lau, Deputy General Manager of Group IT Services, CITIC Pacific Limited
- Charles Mok, Chairman, Internet Society Hong Kong
- Dr. Paul Liu, Manager, Information Technology Division, Chong Hing Bank Ltd

Conference sessions will include Cloudscape, an Overview of the Current Marketplace, Cloud Security and Deployment Strengths and Infrastructure amongst others.

The event includes a free-to-attend exhibition with workshops, demonstrations and invites to the evening drinks reception.

To register for the event then please click here or call the team on +44 (0)845 519 1230. An early booking discount is available until 15th October 2010.

For further information on speaking opportunities, sponsorship and exhibition options please contact the Keynote team on +44 (0)845 519 1230 or email info@keynoteworld.com.

Techistan and DIDX are press agent and media partner (in that order) for Cloud Computing World Forum Asia. Other sponsors are listed at http://www.cloudcomputinglive.com/asia/the-news/partners.html.

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The summit, organized by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health in partnership with the mHealth Alliance and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will be held November 8-10 in Washington, DC.

“With more than 5 billion mobile subscriptions in use around the world, today cell phones are connecting people and communities in resource-poor and hard-to-reach areas. Through the use of mobile technology to improve health outcomes, we can empower patients and health workers from urban centers to rural villages,” said Rich Scarfo, Director of the mHealth Summit and Director of Strategic Alliances at the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.

Unlike other mobile health conferences, the 2010 mHealth Summit offers a comprehensive program agenda with high-level representation from across three key intersections of the burgeoning mobile health industry: technology, research, and policy.
Conference sessions will explore, examine, and debate the ways mobile technology can transform health care delivery, research, business, and policy for the 21st Century in underserved communities in the U.S. and abroad, including the developing world.

Chopra will join the keynote luncheon on November 9 at 1 pm, where Bill Gates is also scheduled to speak. The event has drawn an impressive lineup of speakers that includes Dr. Francis Collins, NIH Director; Ted Turner, Chairman, the United Nations Foundation, Bill Gates, Co-Chair, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Dr. Julio Frenk, Dean of Faculty, Harvard School of Public Health.

Verizon Wireless, the partnering sponsor, will be joined by other sponsors including Abbott Labs, American Telemedicine Association, CTIS, McKesson Foundation, Microsoft Research, Pfizer, Qualcomm, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Skype and the West Wireless Health Institute.

This event is open to credentialed media only. Press can register online at: http://mhealthsummit.org/press/registration

For further information contact:
Kate Barrett at kbarrett@fnih.org, 301 435 2613.
Visit the official 2010 mHealth Summit website for registration and conference details: www.mhealthsummit.org
Tweet me: U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra to speak at 2010 #mHealth Summit #mHS10 http://www.mhealthsummit.org/ #ICT4D

About the mHealth Summit
The 2010 mHealth Summit, a partnership of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), the National Institutes of Health and the mHealth Alliance, is the leading U.S. conference advancing cross-sector collaboration in the use of wireless technology to improve health outcomes. The 2010 mHealth Summit, to be held November 8-10 at the Walter E. Convention Center, will connect leaders in government, private sector/industry, academia and not-for-profit organizations to advance discussion and decision-making related to the intersection of mobile technology, health research, and policy in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.mhealthsummit.org.
ShowStoppers is a partner and the official sales, marketing and media agent of the mHealth Summit. Techistan is a media partner for 2010 mHealth Summit.

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A certain section of Craigslist called “adult services”  was censored out last Friday on all U.S.-based pages. The listings continue are still outside the United States even in countries that are a state of some certain religion. It was a complete surprise to everyone with no warning from Craigslist that the United States took such a stand.

Human sex trafficking is a real threat to the lives of thousands of children, women, and other people’s lives. The parents of children in undeveloped areas of the world are scoped out by “headhunters” who offer the parents money to put their children to work in other countries, but what the parents are not aware of … is how they will make a living and the fact that room, board and drugs are the main “pay” for the services of the women and children.

Craigslist has been found in many cases to be the location where human sex trafficking rings run their sales. Craigslist usually runs ads for anyone anywhere in the world free, but it does charge $10 US dollars per ad in the adult services listings.

Online and television news stations and departments of law use the Craigslist ads to research, publicize and/or arrest “culprits.” CBS news, CNN, PBS, and many social philanthropic and nonprofit organizations have shared some of their research via video, blogs, and television documentaries.

Human trafficking is usually conducted with objectives of forced labor, prostitution, domestic engineering, debt bondage, farming, factory work, nail salons, strip club dancing, and tanning salons. Those who are “enslaved” usually are hired under the table with not much more than a few dollars, some drugs, food and a place to stay, often threatened if they should dare to leave.

A Hawaii federal grand jury during the week of September 4, 2010 indicted the owner of Global Horizons Manpower Inc. and four of its employees of participating in a conspiracy to force the labor of at least 400 Thai nationals. Their President Mordechai Orian, an Israeli national, turned himself in to the FBI the same week. This is just one of many situations involving different types of human trafficking in the United States.

Craigslist received a letter from 17 state attorneys general with explicit command that the company shut down the adult services listing. They cited a case of two young girls who were trafficked for sex through the Craigslist website. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, a democrat and a signee of last month’s letter, said in a statement Saturday he welcomed Craigslist’s apparent decision to close the section and said he was seeking to verify the site’s official policy going forward.

Craigslist’s adult services listings with its $10 per ad make up about 1/3 of their annual revenue. The services used to be called erotic and were changed to “adult” in the last few years.

Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster explained, in an August 2010 blog post, that the company filters more ads than anyone imagines especially in the Adult Services listings, pointing out its lawyers had rejected some 700,000 inappropriate ads to date, and suggested its methods could offer a model for the entire industry. He clearly showed how upset he was about the unplanned CNN video interview of Craigslist’s founder Craig Newmark at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPg0k6hTZHo. Newmark is famous for his low-key, down to earth, geeky, friendly demeanor.

So this still young, upstart (only 15 years old) service gets to take the hit for adult service listings while perhaps other sites such as Playboy, Hustler, Xhamster, Facebook, MoviePost, and other platforms, services, and products make even more money from the same services and have been around/or maybe even been around longer than Craiglist.

This news was first reported on one of our favorite social news sites: Techcrunch.

Techistan is not attempting to state that the following video does or does not have a relation to Craigslist Adult Listing, but instead is shared as an example of television news on the subject… in this case, Las Vegas.

The company who runs Techistan, Super Technologies, Inc., once had an email discussion with Craigslist regarding work together to combat a certain criminal trend in the IP communications industry that combined Craigslist with DID. They were extremely helpful in stopping the activity. So Techistan can vouch for this star on the integrity belt on Craigslist.

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Some of us at Techistan do a lot of trail runs and hiking, most recent was one through the woods and swamps with the Survivor group off of Hwy 98 in Pensacola, Florida, with water up to your waist at times.

Fortunately, walkers now have available a dizzying range of hiking GPS units to help guide them towards their target destination.

Handheld GPS units are receivers, not transmitters. They receive signals transmitted by the GPS satellites, and use these to pinpoint the user’s exact geographic position–in latitude and longitude coordinates–with incredibly accuracy.

Basic units give location in latitude and longitude, allowing the user to locate his or her position on a map. Many navigators now have maps built-in, so you can see your map location and plot a course just by looking at the screen.

Many functions are available in GPS units. Not all functions will be required by all hikers. Individual users can benefit by understanding the range of features available and then selecting those they require. The following list of features is offered merely as some suggestions, not as a necessary directive.

Make sure the device you purchase is capable of supporting detailed maps. Many basemaps that come preloaded in cheaper GPS units are low quality. You will want a device that will accept high quality topographic maps, either by upload or memory card.

A readable screen with clear display is another basic yet important feature. The user must be able to see the displayed information clearly, even in bright sunlight. Screen size and digital character size should be adequate for the user’s eyesight. The backlighting ability of the unit must also be carefully considered.

More technically, many users will find it desirable to have a unit with 12 channel receiver capacity. The more channels a unit has the greater the likelihood that the unit will successfully receive signals from one or more of the satellites. To locate position accurately, the unit needs to receive signals from at least three, and desirably four, satellites simultaneously.

Waterproofing is another factor to consider. Virtually all GPS handhelds offer entry level waterproofing so that if they are accidentally dropped into water they will float and function once retrieved.

The ability to store a large number of waypoints or location markers allows a hike to be thoroughly preplanned and signposted. These waypoints can then be used to check progress during the hike. Many units have the ability to store as many as 500 or more waypoints and as many as 20 complete routes.

The ability of a unit to process multiple datum is another important issue. Although technical, a datum refers to the basis, or base line geodetic information, upon which a map has been prepared. The ability of a handheld to process alternative datum is highly desirable.

Last but not the least is the size and weight of a hiking GPS unit. Ideally, it will be easy to carry and fit easily into a pocket or backpack compartment so as to be easily retrieved.

Explore the world of hiking GPS. Find out more about mapping and non-mapping GPS navigators, and using GPS for hiking and backpacking by visiting the www.hikinggps.co.

Also download a free GIS software Techistan wrote about earlier in 2010. Read http://www.techistan.com/2010/08/25/first-arabian-geographical-information-system-free-download-on-cnet/.

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Having had a colourful and memorable childhood, Ms Gan Ee Bee knew authentic education involved more than rote learning. Children needed an education that was effective, multi-faceted and would prepare them for the changing world. She set out to expand on some of the best practices in early childhood and elementary education, and participated in programs under Dr Kurt W. Fischer and Howard Gardner, Bigelow Professors at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She was mentored as a Mind Brain Education researcher, with majors in educational leadership and brain science research methodology.

Neumind offers areas for unstructured play, exploration, activity and reflection. Meeting spaces abound, used for both planned and chance interactions that typify the collaborative Neumind experience. Learning spaces reflect an international educational and aesthetic standard, and are flexible to accommodate the different activities at Neumind. The environment promotes engagement and learning in small group instruction, formal lectures, large group read-alouds or multimedia presentations.

EeBee Gan and the program are looking to expand with non-profit initiatives and open source online education platforms to connect with. Please contact EeBee on Facebook for collaborations.

Listen and read our discussion with EeBee about Neumind on podcast.

Transcript follows:

Suzanne Bowen: I’m your host Suzanne Bowen, and today we have with us EeBee Gan. She’s in Singapore. I met her in 2009 at the Women’s Entrepeneur Launch, the Women’s Entrepenuer Power Conference, put on by Andrew Wong and others. We met when we were sharing a table during the lunch buffet. I had a really great time talking with her. She was very out going and excited about her entrepreneurial activities. I’m happy to share with you a new friend, EeeBee Gan. EeeBee would you tell us a little more about yourself?

EeBee Gan: Yeah, sure. Basically when I was young, much younger, my parents ran a YMCA Youth Hostel in a seaside bungalow. So I was  exposed to various cultures and languages from all over the world. I keep myself busy meeting new friends, and get to know many friends and I started doing some self study myself. I learned English from tourists and built my confidence and learned about positive thinking skills. So I learned new ways by working on my strengths. So I guess these are the experiences I have been through when I was much younger.

Suzanne Bowen: So even from a young age you’re… what would you call it? … a self starter. Internally, intrinsically motivated, that’s great! So, EeBee, what happened from there? You were telling me a little bit about your career. Love to hear about it.

EeBee Gan: Ok, sure. Back in 1998 after my graduation, I started my career, an auditing and accounting job. It lasted about three years. And I start exploring the things that I would really like to do. So I found myself reflecting on how to best prepare children for changing the future. And building on the research of many educational pioneers and leading thinkers in Harvard University. I set out to spend some of the impressive and proven practices from early childhood and elementary education research.

Suzanne Bowen: That’s a big change from accounting to education but it sounds pretty exciting what you’re involved in. I would love to hear more.

Eebee Gan: I tried to build the educational vision and it emerged quickly beyond the boundaries of my own career and developed into what is now Neumind. So basically I run courses, short term courses or even enrichment classes. We would like to incorporate multiple disciplines and lessons of nurturing creativity and leadership in each child. So I try to work together with some researchers and actively engage in learning and help to motivate the younger kids in local context.

Now, the parents are very much having high expectations of the kids and are very much results-oriented. So we would like to bring new values with combined wisdom from our mentors for the families and the larger community.

Suzanne Bowen: So speaking of mentors, would you share with us some of the people in your life who have been great influence/inspiration for you, who have been your mentors.

Eebee Gan: I’ve been meeting many friends and some of them successful entrepreneurs and I think the most important values I’ve learned from them are to keep trying and never give up. This is what I’ve been doing for 27 years. So it’s like a struggle and I think entrepreneurship is a way of life. It is how I want to live my life to take the lead and to create something new and better.

Previously Neumind was known as BHR (Brain Hemisphere Research. Basically we have gone through a re-branding exercises. This is a project funded by Spring Singapore. We spent about 9 months coming up with a new corporate communication design and even for a new brand name, and it represents increased neuron activities in our brain. Something different.

I would like to say more about Neumind, how we derived this concept. I would say parents are looking forward to providing the kids with the best quality education activities for the children. We try to build a brand name that helps parents to meet their ends and of course Neumind teaching methods are formed by My Brain Education. I’ve been attending the summer institute at Harvard University developed by Dr. Kirk Fisher and Holgeiner from Harvard.

My brand education findings provide us with understanding that when it came to best performance, there is a record jump in performance at about 4 years, 7 years, 11 years, in 15 years and 20 years under the optimal learning conditions. In the market you would find many programs that emphasize a lot on age 0 to age 3. The new upcoming research findings would tell us more that we can actually achieve rapid jumps in performance at other ages.

Suzanne Bowen: Wow Eebee, something you just said made me think back to my own childhood. I told my husband the other day, when I think back on my years of formal schooling, from age 6 to about age 22, the 2 years I remember learning the most, when I loved school the most I were during ages 8 to 9 years old.

After that I feel I didn’t learn much in school. You’re making some good points. Sounds like a really exciting, revolutionary approach. I understand parents do have high expectations.

So you are definitely looking for the best research, developing the coursework from there at the same time. For example. you mentioned awhile ago multiple intelligences. Tell me a little bit about that, how you’re integrating that into the program.

Eebee Gan: Basically, it’s a learning approach or I would say it’s a teaching approach, that the parents can implement at home, and we try to communicate very frequently with the parents. And of course with good teachers, teaching, training, sessions, the teachers get to know about multiple intelligences and how to help the parents to identify the kids’ strengths. We can actually, incorporate multiple intelligences of framework into many diverse disciplines. You could be in language arts program and be better able to enhance the brain growth cycle ability.

We can integrate some interactive activities in the classroom setting so we may find the keys. They’re not solely learning a language arts, but they are exposed to many diverse disciplines. It could be implementing or even getting the parents and teachers to understand the importance of cognitive science or informational neural science into the classroom practice. So I would say it helps the parents to provide students superior learning in compliance with brain’s dominating areas.

Suzanne Bowen: Okay, again I’m going to go back to my own experience because really good speakers make that happen. You’re doing a great job. You made me think of when I was a teacher. I was really intrigued with the multiple intelligence theory. Multiple intelligences, because for example even though I know I am an auditory learner, I like to listen and then I learn a lot by listening…

But I realize that not everyone is like that. And the way school is traditionally, the student in order to succeed has to be an auditory learner. Tey have to be willing to sit there and listen and take notes, that kind of thing right? But they could learn so much more.

I remember teaching an international foriegn language class and the way I exposed them to like Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, German, different languages was we danced and sang our way through them.

I found children’s songs that they were all ready familiar with that were English songs that were translated into different languages. So we would learn to sing the songs in other languages. So it was easy for them to do and they were having fun. It felt natural, it appealed to an intelligence area they were very comfortable with.

Even now I meet those kids, they’re now adults. One kid was in the Marines. He went to Japan and he said, “Wow, I actually met a lot of, made a lot of great friends. especially the girls. Because I sang to them in Japanese and I made them laugh”.

I just love to hear this creative approach to education. It’s life changing and it’s lasting and it will get more results that the parents are looking for than the traditional… “you will listen to mel you will take notes and you will take the tests.”

It’s been so wonderful to get back in touch with you. I was wondering if we might close this interview with maybe you could share with us any particular success you’ve had, that you feel you’ve had within this Neumind or maybe a challenge that you’ve overcome during the process and then also how can the listeners get in touch with you?

EeBee Gan: Basically, you can visit our website www.neumind.org and you can actually log into Facebook and find Neumind.

I would like to share more. We try to educate the parents, getting them to understand that they can actually set long term targets for their kids. And we try to implement or incorporate leadership skills by creating individuals who significantly affect the thoughts, feelings, behaviors of others and would like to motivate the students to learn and grow in achieving peak performance, but it would be in the long term basis.

Suzanne Bowen: Ok, EeBee, one of the things that we as entrepreneurs (female entrepreneurs) are obligated to is to share a little advice to the younger ladies who are listening. So I was wondering if you have any advice for those female entrepreneurial thinkers out there.

EeBee Gan: I would say keep trying and never give up. And of course they can actually seek some guidance or even mentorship from currently successful entrepreneurs and they can actually kick start ideas or simple ideas by setting up small businesses. They need not have many experiences. They can actually gain experiences through the project they are going to create.

Suzanne Bowen: Thank you Eebee, and as Eebee mentioned you can look up NEUMIND by searching on the net. The program is available on Facebook and on their website. So I just want to thank you EeBee and until we meet again, I wish you the best in life and just keep on being that great influence on the children and the parents and like you said, you’re affecting the future in a very positive way.

EeBee Gan: Thank you, and you are welcome.

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This special series spotlights innovative companies and is a cost effective way to enlighten millions of business travelers about your company. The Sky Radio production team will produce a radio interview to broadcast on their business talk channels on American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, US Airways as well as a TV commercial to air on the CNN Airport Network.

For pricing and details, click http://skyradionet.net/innovators. Be sure to tell them Techistan online magazine sent you, so they will treat you well!

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