my name is yaw anokwa. i am 4th year ph.d. student in computer science at the university of washington. i work with gaetano borriello, tapan parikh and the change and dub groups. i'm currently an intern at google where i am building, deploying and evaluating technologies for the developing world. you can find examples of my work below or in my curriculum vitae. email me at yanokwa@cs.

• ypin: the cell phone revolution in the developing world
  at world affairs council, 2009
• mobile data collection overview
  at gcamp: emerging technologies for emerging infections, phnom penh, 2009
• computer science and global development [talk]
  at cs 190 at uw, 2009
• stories from a computer scientist [talk]
  at chief sealth, 2009
• a young researcher’s thoughts on ictd research [paper]
  in yrictd at ictd 2009
• a new generation of open source data collection tools [paper, demo]
  yaw anokwa, carl hartung, adam lerer, brian derenzi, gaetano borriello
  in ictd 2009
• ureport - mobile data collection [talk, demo]
  yaw anokwa, carl hartung
  at google, 2009
• better health care delivery in east africa through computing [poster]
  at university of washington, 2008
• hacking africa [poster, talk]
  at university of puget sound, 2008
• computing in the developing world [talk]
  at cs4hs, 2008
• building a simpler clinician experience in openmrs [poster]
  yaw anokwa, christian allen, chase yarborough, hamish fraser
  in phi 2008
• computer science in the developing world [talk, video]
  yaw anokwa, brian derenzi, benson limketkai
  at change, 2009
• optimizing links in the developing world [paper, talk]
  yaw anokwa, colin dixon, gaetano borriello, tapan parikh
  in wins-dr at mobicom 2008
• deploying openmrs in rwanda [talk]
  at nokia, 2009
• deploying a medical record system in rural rwanda [paper, poster]
  yaw anokwa, christian allen, tapan parikh
  in hci4cid at chi 2008
  
• reliable data collection in highly disconnected environments using mobile phones [paper]
  brian derenzi, yaw anokwa, tapan parikh, gaetano borriello
  in nsdr at sigcomm 2007
  
• beyond device pairing: new interactions on nfc enabled mobile phones [paper, talk]
  in master's thesis at university of washington, 2007
• the orca card: seattle's public transit pass [website]
  soctech group, 2007
• rfid deployments and rfid scenarios [poster 1, poster 2]
  yaw anokwa, colin dixon, brian ferris, travis kriplean, evan welbourne
  at university of washington, 2007
• mobiscopes for human spaces [magazine, paper]
  tarek abdelzaher, yaw anokwa, peter boda, jeff burke, deborah estrin, leonidas guibas, aman kansal, sam madden, jim reich
  in ieee pervasive april 2007
  
• context to make you more aware [paper]
  adrienne andrew, yaw anokwa, karl koscher, jonathan lester, gaetano borriello
  in iwsawc at icdcs 2007
  
• the psi board: realizing a phone-centric body sensor network [paper]
  trevor pering, pei zhang, rohit chaudhri, yaw anokwa, roy want
  in bsn 2007
  
• a user interaction model for nfc enabled applications [paper, poster, talk]
  yaw anokwa, gaetano borriello, trevor pering, roy want
  in pertec at percom 2007
  
• gesture connect: facilitating tangible interaction with a flick of the wrist [paper, talk]
  trevor pering, yaw anokwa, roy want
  in tei 2007