William Jefferson Clinton TED Prize Wish Update

AMD, Nokia and Sun Microsystems Collaborate to Fulfill Former President's 2007 TED Prize Wish of Expanding Healthcare in Rwanda

MONTEREY, Calif., /PRNewswire/ -- Leading technology companies AMD, Nokia and Sun Microsystems, in partnership with the Clinton Foundation, Partners In Health and the Government of Rwanda, have joined efforts in support of President William Jefferson Clinton's TED Prize wish of scaling up a sustainable, high quality rural healthcare system throughout Rwanda.

Working together with the Government of Rwanda, the Clinton Foundation and Partners In Health, an organization dedicated to partnering with poor communities to combat disease and poverty, each company has contributed technologies and insights that executed collectively, will help to support a scaleable healthcare system in Rwanda. Among their individual contributions:

-- AMD, through the 50x15 Initiative, is helping define, architect,
procure, deploy and maintain technology solutions in Rwanda. Working
with Inveneo, a 50x15 ecosystem partner, AMD is defining the needs to
effectively deliver a sustainable solution for the country. Within the
first year, AMD intends to deliver complete technology solutions to
the next target district identified by the partnership, with the
mechanisms in place to rapidly scale to up to three additional
districts.

This contribution to the TED Prize extends the reach of the 50x15 Initiative into new communities and new applications towards the goal of enabling 50 percent of the world's population with affordable Internet access and computing capability by the year 2015.

-- Nokia has contributed groundbreaking software, called MobiSUS,
developed in Brazil by a Nokia R&D Branch. MobiSUS allows health care
professionals to develop surveys, load them on to a server and Nokia
mobile devices, and to use the mobile handsets in remote areas to
acquire detailed information about patients. The MobiSUS developers
worked to make the software and the devices easy to teach and easy to
learn, allowing native health care workers to maintain relationships
with their patients while collecting data efficiently. MobiSUS will
eliminate the need for paperwork as well as multiple steps of data
entry. The data can be sent over wifi, GPRS, bluetooth, or USB cable
directly from the phone to the database. The software serves as an
empowering tool for health care workers, and as a sustainable system
for the nation. Nokia plans to be directly involved with the initial
implementation and training, as well as the adapting of the software
to meet the specific needs of the Rwandan healthcare system.
-- Sun Microsystems, in its third year of support of a TED Prize winner,
is working to build the computer network infrastructure needed for the
"Centers of Excellence." Serving as models and training centers, these
"Centers of Excellence" will enable the expansion of the current
Rwanda Rural Healthcare Project and electronic medical record system
into the four Rwandan Provinces. Sun's ultimate goal is to create a
reference site for the adoption of open source computer network
technologies throughout the developing world.

"The TED Prize is an award that leverages the power of collaboration," says Amy Novogratz, Director of the TED Prize. "Sun, Nokia and AMD have each made extraordinary contributions that will make a measurable impact on access to healthcare for millions. We are grateful for their support."

About TED

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