Victor Grau Serrat
About Victor Grau Serrat
Victor is an electrical engineer and entrepreneur with more than 7 years experience with ICT projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He has worked on appropriate technologies from the private, not-for-profit and university sectors, and has been involved in several start-ups. He is now teaching at MIT on design and innovation for the developing world.
Role(s) / Profession(s)
Organization
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT
Language(s)
- Catalan
- English
- Spanish
Recent Contributions
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Victor Grau Serrat replied to "Solar Chargers for Mobile" in the Health IT community.
These gadgets are certainly high-end, and in general, solar power is on the expensive end of the spectrum for energy generation (either that or the efficiency in the solar panels drops significantly). But the underlying idea is very worth exploring: providing alternative sources of energy to re-charge cellphones in resource-limited settings and save users from long trips to the nearest charging station. Several people working on this front building on top of another very ubiquitous ...
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Victor Grau Serrat replied to "Creating an intranet for PIH-Rwanda" in the Health IT community.
I agree with Heather, and taking advantage if the asynchronous nature (read limited online connectivity) makes a lot of sense. There are a few open source mail servers that can be readily installed and deployed (any OS), and tweaking the retry and timeouts for mail delivery, one can build the appropriate connectivity infrastructure for a store-and-forward system. The advantage of using email as the underlying communications infrastructure is a robust standards- compliant system, a very ...
Recent Recommendations
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