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Well, it looks like the run-off between President Karzai, and his ex Finance Minister, Abdulah Abdulah is off, and Mr. Karzai has been elected President. Ensheallah, things will be peaceful.
This trip we are focusing on setting up the TeleMedicine Training Lab for MedWeb
http://medweb.reachback.org (portal)
(ex-Fablab) and a General Use Computer Lab for the Locals around Bagrami, as well as coaching some of the NU staff on the backend of web development.
Due to the Swine flu scare, and maybe for some social distancing reasons related to post election gatherings.. NU has been off line for 5 weeks so little was accomplished there...
However, the Public Hospital Spoke is up and working, and the MEDWEB Telemedicine lab is in process - we have successfully installed a medweb server @ Taj Hub and the WiMax Canopy system is humming away, giving the phat pipe to the Public Hospital, and relieving the Fabfi ... of some of its burden.
Delivered Boats to the Village Sak, and while there, Dr Dave saw the well had been trashed in recent flooding, so within 4 or 5 days, he had a DRILL in the ground to give these folks CLEAN water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziUByDWXzzs
UPDATE: Progres report from Lut our Taj intern:
http://www.youtube.com/user/lutfullahkamran#p/u/4/t22H-AkurA4
http://www.youtube.com/user/lutfullahkamran#p/u/3/buIx71CBgjU
http://www.youtube.com/user/lutfullahkamran#p/u/5/wJi8IGlDJ44
http://www.youtube.com/user/lutfullahkamran#p/u/6/jq7oLGa67A8
http://www.youtube.com/user/lutfullahkamran#p/u/2/j0Wq_zIseQg
An interesting trip for sure, day 1, tanker hit out side of Sarobi.. got a vid clip..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWh6t_t_N_8
Same day, IED goes off in front of Taj.. 3 days later, over coffee we see an Ambush in Duranta, too close to jbad .. link to Tims blog on this day is here..
http://freerangeinternational.com/blog/?p=2344
Overall, a great trip.. Cant wait to head back around Christmas.. or EID..
following are some photo refs ..
http://picasaweb.google.com/reachback
http://picasaweb.google.com/fobtaj
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