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Recent and Past Stories
Nov. 2009: 2009 Honor Air
WiRED founding board member, Dr. Richard Gilbert, is a World War II veteran who recently enjoyed an all-expense paid trip to Washington, DC. to see the WWII Memorial. Rotarians, who supported the formative work of WiRED in the Balkans and Central America, are sending vets on similar trips to Washington from all over America. Read more >
Oct. 2009: WiRED Welcomes New Board Member
WiRED is pleased to announce the addition of a new board member, Anthony Hodge, who is the retired president of Anthony Hodge & Associates, an executive search firm serving a wide range of industries and functional areas. Read more >
Aug. 2009: Battling HIV/AIDS in Kenya—revitalizing WiRED programs.
This month, WiRED launches a special fundraising campaign to renew its successful prevention program in Kenya by refurbishing four Community Health Information Centers (CHICs) in and around Nairobi. WiRED plans to enhance its prevention program in Kenya with new computers and educational material. Read full story >
Aug. 2009: Battling HIV/AIDS in Kenya—CHICs' lasting impact.
"Before the WiRED CHIC was set up in Butula, no young person had ever seen a computer, except for those who had traveled out of the village," Mary Makokha told me when we met early this week. "In fact, because of the WiRED CHIC, many young people from Butula decided to go and study IT." Read full story >
Jul. 2009: WiRED releases two videos.
There's a saying that those who like films and sausages should never see how they're made. A lot more happens behind the scenes than is readily visible. At the risk of wrecking the magic, we'd like to share a little about what went into the two video introductions now posted on the WiRED and ITN websites. Read full story >
Jul. 2009: Clayton's story.
Soon after Kate Mayer started her work with WiRED, we all learned that her 13-year-old son, Clayton, had biphenotypic leukemia, a particularly rare form of the disease. Read full story >
May 2009: WiRED in Kenya—
Reflections on the past, hopes for the future.
Over the last seven years, an estimated one million Kenyans have had access to accurate information about HIV/AIDS and other critical health-related topics thanks to WiRED's Community Health Information Centers (CHICs). As WiRED makes plans to refurbish and update five CHICs in this country, we reflect on our past work and goals for the future. Read full story >
Apr. 2009: Kosova Hosts Landmark International Medical Conference
When Zgjim Limani, MD, a physician specializing in ear, nose and throat (ENT) medicine, and his colleagues wanted to put together an international medical symposium in Prishtina, Kosova, they asked if WiRED could help arrange a teleconference from the United States. Dr. Limani had worked with WiRED in the past and knew about the newly formed International Telemedicine Network (ITN). Read full story >
Mar. 2009: WiRED receives Berkeley Public Health Hero Award.
The University of California, Berkeley, recently selected WiRED International as the School of Public Health's 2009 Organizational Public Health Hero. Berkeley recognized WiRED for "its achievements in using information technology to provide up-to-date health education and medical information to individuals in developing, post-conflict, and isolated regions of the world." Read full story >
Jan. 2009: WiRED receives grant from the Medtronic Foundation.
In January, WiRED International received a $50,000 grant from the Medtronic Foundation to support organizational elements of the International Telemedicine Network (ITN). The ITN is a consortium of 13 medical schools, teaching hospitals, research institutes, and non-profit organizations partnering to improve world health by providing medical education to healthcare communities in developing regions of the world. Read full story >
Nov. 2008: WiRED leads forty-five minute video conference.
On November 23, 2008, as a capstone to a two-day conference at the Medical City Center in Baghdad, WiRED International led a
forty-five minute administrative video conference between Iraqi conference attendees and a group of five doctors and consultants
at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Read full story >
Sept. 2008: WiRED organizes meeting of telemedicine experts to discuss
new collaboration.
WiRED International hosted a meeting at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC on September 25th, bringing together telemedicine experts from 12 leading medical, technology, and nonprofit organizations from across the country. The consortium participants explored ways they could pool their skills, experience, and resources through an International Telemedicine Network (ITN) to deliver medical education and information systems to the poorest developing countries in the world. Read full story >
Sept. 2008: Dr. Gary Selnow's address to the ITN organizational meeting.
Read Dr. Gary Selnow's address to the Children's National Medical Center ITN Organizational Meeting held on September 25, 2008. Read full story >
Aug. 2008: Central American countries welcome new WiRED centers.
In a whirlwind three days in August, WiRED opened Medical Information Centers (MICs) in Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador. Ribbon cutting ceremonies at the three new MIC openings brought out doctors, nurses, hospital administrators and many celebrants from the local communities. Read full story in English > (en Español >)
Jun. 2008: WiRED in action: bringing experts together via technology.
In June 2008, WiRED, its IT partners, and the ICDDR,B provided critical medical information to Iraqi doctors via videoconference and training videos to help contain an outbreak of cholera. Read full story >
Jun. 2008: WiRED marks fifth anniversary of its first Medical Information
Center in Iraq.
On June 24, 2003, WiRED International launched its first Medical Information Center (MIC) in Iraq. Now, five years later, WiRED celebrates the anniversary of this launch, having installed more than 30 MICs throughout the country and video conferencing facilities in four Iraqi cities. Read full story >
Sep. 2007: Summary—personal stories from Kenya.
The following stories, sent to us by CHIC visitors, staffers and community members, reflect the anguish and sorrow, and the hope and joy experienced among those familiar with WiRED's Centers. These recollections describe the value of WiRED's programs, and show how WiRED is offering an opportunity to those who have lost all optimism to once again experience hope.
Read full story >
Jul. 2007: WiRED On CNN.
On Friday, July 21, 2007, WiRED's telemedicine program in Iraq was the topic on one of America's most-watched news programs, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360. The story focused on the significant impact that WiRED's low-budget, medical education programs are having in Iraq, in comparison to some large projects with budgets reaching $150 million that have "essentially fallen apart," as described by Cooper. Read full story >
Jun. 2007: State Department Announces Funding to Restart WiRED's Telemedicine Program with Iraq
The U.S. Department of State has recently announced that it will underwrite the restart of WiRED's telemedicine program in Iraq. This year, the program will include a general curriculum to update Iraqi physicians and nurses on current medical developments . . . Full Story
Aug. 2006: WiRED receives grant from the Medtronic Foundation for medical education in Serbia and Kosovo.
The Medtronic Foundation announced in early August that it will provide a humanitarian grant to support WiRED's medical education work in Serbia and Kosovo. This grant will continue the Medtronic Foundation's generous underwriting of WiRED's Medical Information Centers in the former Yugoslavia. It will cover new equipment and installation and share in the operating costs for medical content. Read full story >
Aug. 2006: WiRED's medical education work in Iraq.
This summer, WiRED International has been coordinating a telemedicine program between three U.S. medical universities and four medical schools in Iraq. Read full story >
Apr. 2006: WiRED Successfully Completes first Telemedicine Conference between Iraqi and U.S. Physicians.
April 2006 brought the first video conference between Iraqi physicians at Baghdad's Medical City Center and U.S. physicians at Washington D.C.'s Children's Hospital. Panels of physicians on both sides discussed medical cases for more than one hour. Read full story >
As of Apr. 2006: WiRED in the worldwide media.
The following list of stories about WiRED from worldwide media outlets, such as Soul Beat Africa and the Bangladesh Observer, will provide you with a sense of the scope of WiRED's international programs to provide medical and healthcare information, education, and communications resources to communities in developing and post-conflict regions. See full list >
As of Apr. 2006: WiRED in journals and the local media. See full list >
Jan. 2006: Groundbreaking launch links hospitals in Baghdad and
San Francisco.
Technicians on opposite sides of the globe celebrated the success of equipment tests for WiRED's telemedicine program with a face-to-face meeting on January 17, 2006.
Read full story >
Dec. 2005: Balkans ring in New Year with MICs.
Communities in Serbia and Kosovo are benefiting from eight new Medical Information Centers (MICs) brought by WiRED in late November. Executive director Gary Selnow was on-site for the opening ceremonies. Read full story >
Dec. 2005: Testimonials from Iraqi Ministry of Health and
Iraqi physicians. See full list >
Nov. 2005: WiRED returns to Iraq.
WiRED has successfully installed 19 Medical Information Centers (MICs) in Iraq to date, and will bring another 25 facilities to this country in crisis. For the first time in many years, Iraqi doctors and medical students are accessing the latest Western medical information through the Centers. WiRED director Gary Selnow provides this report from his June 2005 trip to Iraq. Read full story >
Oct. 2005: WiRED Executive Director visits Iraq.
Despite the reality that it has become too dangerous for most NGOs to continue their work in Iraq, WiRED's programs in the war-torn country are gaining momentum as critical resources for the Iraqi medical community. Read full story >
Oct. 2005: New centers inaugurated in Nicaragua, Honduras.
The Center de salud. Perla Maria Norori—Leon's main medical school—welcomed a new WiRED Medical Information Center (MIC) to Nicaragua. Students, professors and physicians expressed their gratitude for the center and discussed their circumstances in stark terms at MIC's opening ceremony.
Read full story >
Oct. 2005: Kenya—an adventure in service.
This is an interesting account of the ups and downs of working in a Community Health Information Center in Kenya. The staff normally meets different obstacles along the way—from rough roads and bad weather to hostile clients. This time they literally have to cross a raging river. What is admirable is their neverending enthusiasm to serve people despite adversity. Read full story >
Jun. 2005: WiRED International partnered with the American Federation of Teachers (ITU).
WiRED recently expanded its partnership with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in June 2005 by launching a new computer lab in Iraq. Through this partnership, WiRED outfitted the Iraqi Teacher's Union (ITU) with computer equipment and is now providing a complete training course for ITU officials.
Read full story >
Nov. 2004: WiRED opens two new Medical Information Centers in the former Yugoslavia.
WiRED expanded its Medical Information Center project in the former Yugoslavia with the launch of Centers in the Medical Faculty at the University of Prishtina, Kosovo and at the Medical Faculty at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Both facilities now provide doctors and medical students with information from a medical CD collection and medical Websites. Read full story >
Nov. 2004: WiRED mourns the loss of diplomat in Iraq.
Jim Mollen was killed in Iraq on the day before Thanksgiving. Mollen was the U.S. Embassy's senior advisor on Iraqi educational matters. He was shot to death in a car outside the Green Zone while traveling from a meeting. Read full story >
May 2004: Dr. Gary Selnow's address to SFSU graduating class.
"A Second Front in The War on Terrorism" Read full story >
Dec. 2003: WiRED Receives the First Annual "Make A Difference Award" from Affinity Internet.
The award for the best charity Website was presented on December 22, 2003, by Jim Collins, Affinity's Chief Marketing Officer. WiRED International was selected from among 263 nominations to win the Grand Prize. Read full story >
Dec. 2003: WiRED Participates in Symposium at the UN.
Sponsored by the International Professional Interest Section of the Public Relations Society of America, the meeting drew media and communication specialists from around the county to examine global communication problems that surfaced after the World Trade Center attack and swelled after the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Read full story >
Dec. 2003: WiRED dedicates two new Medical Information Centers in Montenegro.
WiRED returned to the Balkans in December 2003 to open two Medical Information Centers (MICs) in Montenegro. The new Centers, underwritten by The Medtronic Foundation, are in the Medical School in Podgorica and in the Danilo I Hospital in Cetinje. The Centinje Hospital is the oldest hospital in the country, this December celebrating its 130th year of continuous service to the people of Montenegro. Read full story >
Nov. 2003: WiRED International collaborates with the American Federation of Teachers to bring a Computer Information Center to
Sierre Leone.
On November 24, 2003, in collaboration with the American Federation of Teachers, WiRED installed a computer training lab in the Ahmadiyya Muslim School in Sierre Leone. The facility, which is the first of its kind in this post-conflict, west African country, will introduce some 5,000 students to a technology that will be critical for the economic and social development of this impoverished region. Read full story >
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