It was great to hear from Kuang about his process for identifying where he might best fit into this landscape of ICTD work. Listening, learning, understanding cultural contexts for various existing information and communication technology “problems” is such a critical part of successful ICTD design and implementation – I only wish it was a more codified “step” in the institutional and academic approach to technology R&D.

The challenges inherent in data management are enormous when it comes to public health information anywhere in the world, especially in extremely limited resource settings. Kuang’s optimism that community based participatory research approaches to solving these problems is possible was refreshing. Glad to see that Tap’s influence (and others in the field) is rubbing off! Really excited to see what the next steps with CommScape are (or whatever that may morph into).