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I had the pleasure of attending the Fobissea Primary ICT Conference  at the weekend. Thanks to Rik Millington of the British School Manila for hosting. It was great to be in the company of over 20 keen and enthusiastic ICT teachers and coordinators focusing on primary teaching and working for British Schools in the region (SE Asia). It was interesting to see the total dominance of Apple within the room, and the dramatic upsurge in the iPad as the primary computing tool (at least for these teachers on the go). Almost all the schools were deploying iPads in the classroom, and all were finding management of hundreds of iPads daunting. Though some tools for iPad management exist (including Mobile Device Management from Air-Watch ) there was a feeling (and concern) that Apple would soon enter this marketplace as they seek to make the iPad more enterprise friendly, and so purchasing a third party tool now might lead to an expensive and inappropriate lockin in just a few months. App purch

The Main Gate The " Tulay Ng Kabataan " ("A Bridge for Children") Foundation has been helping the  most unfortunate children of Manila since 1998. They take care of street children, scavenger children and children in slums. Over 1000 children benefit from their work at any time. In February 2012 they will move their central office to a larger office. We will help the networking and IT facilitation with help from the Lucky Buggers , and the ADB Spouses Association . Teaching in the schoolroom The Foundation's head office supports 10 PCs, and manages the 25 centres and 120 paid personnel of the Foundation. The current networking infrastructure is an organically grown spaghetti, with all the attendant problems of reliability. The comms cabinet needs a bit of work We aim to help to sort out the network in the new office to increase reliability - fortunately, the support group we have has some networking professionals. Further work will include s

This page is an experiment in Google Fusion Tables and Maps The map below is a static image generated by a very simple table in Google Fusion Tables. There should be another map below here too (Chrome suggests it is insecure content and prompts you to agree to load it. You shouldn't take it from me, but it's fine and generated by Google anyway): This map is an embedded Fusion Tables Map. The map shows GDP per capita for the countries of ADB's Central and West Region. (For the record, the information in the table comes from ADB's website and Wikipedia and is all publicly available; the choice of data is not particularly important) This map is Flash content, somewhat oddly, and frustratingly, as all the other Fusion Table maps are Google Maps mashups, and it means Google has excluded iOS devices from viewing this sort of map. The view region for the entire map has many options, above 'World' has been chosen, as unfortunately the nearest other option

Loading the prototype cartridge This work was presented at the AACC Oak Ridge Conference, 2010 . The Scottish Government through ITI Techmedia funded a $15m programme (4 year programme) to develop a Biosensor prototype for the rapid (<10minutes) diagnosis of infectious diseases such as Hepatitis C from a blood sample, in the 1 viral particle per millilitre sensitivity range. Jonathan Salmon (now of Salmon Consultants Ltd) was responsible for timely deliverables, financial planning and communication and headed a team peaking at 14 biological scientists and mechanical, electrical and software engineers, with additional external optical consultants. Jonathan managed $6m of a $15m overall project, communicating with project partners, company management and funder project management over a period of four years. A microfluidic chip The system revolved around a multi-layer microfluidic chip enabling a number of technologies including nanolitre resolution fluid co

Google Earth tours (flythroughs) can be rapidly generated and can be used to quickly and grippingly communicate the scope of a project to stakeholders. Potential Windfarm (for this demo, publicly available maps and models were used).

We have undertaken voluntary work automating interrogation of models of fuel consumption in certain Asian cities depending on various possible interventions. Technologies used were Excel and VBA.