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    Wireless technology for social change: trends in NGO mobile use

    United Nations Foundation, 2008
    This report, published by the UN Foundation, examines real life examples of and trends in wireless technology solutions being used to drive change in the areas of health, humanitarian assistance, and environmental conservation. Largely using case studies, the authors find that NGOs’ use of mobile technology is very widespread and indispensable.
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    Social and environmental risk factors in the emergence of infectious diseases

    Nature Publishing Group, 2004
    This article from Nature Medicine Supplement looks at the emergence over the past 30 years of new diseases such as HIV and AIDS, Ebola, hepatitis C, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and avian influenza, alongside the resurgence of "old" diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) and cholera. The authors argue that these trends are influenced by multiple social and environmental factors.