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<i><font size="1">Technology for Social Change (TecsChange)</font></i></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:italic;text-align:center"><i><br></i></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:center">
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</span></span></div><div><b style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></b></div><div><b style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">About TecsChange</b></div></span></span><div><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display:inline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:12.800000190734863px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><br>
</b>In 1992, participants of Computers and Social Change Conference in Boston came together to discuss a common interest in technological use in developing countries. Connecting our computer skills with our desire to support progressive grassroots organizing, we founded TecsChange.<br>
<br>Several of the founders of TecsChange came from the national organization called TecNica. TecNica recruited technical volunteers to work in Nicaragua, during the Sandinista era. <br><br>We are volunteers, mostly from the Boston area, with software, hardware and computer training skills, as well as non-technical skills. We have a diverse membership and welcome volunteers at all skill levels. Our one volunteer requirement aligns with our mission: to support progressive social change here and in the developing world. Some of us have traveled to and/or worked in Latin America and Southern Africa, using our technical skills to train people in grassroots groups to set up software and hardware systems.</span></div>
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Some of us have traveled to and/or worked in Latin America and Southern Africa, using our technical skills to train people in grassroots groups to set up software and hardware systems. Last year, TecsChange shipped 40 computers to San Juan de Rios Regional Hospital in El Salvador. TecsChange recently started sending computers to grassroots groups organizing in India. </span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display:inline"><b>About the speaker</b></span></div><div><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display:inline"><br></span></div>Dr. Ramón Antonio Abrego González is a pediatric surgeon from </span><span style="font-size:small">El Salvador. Since 2009 he has been Director of the San Juan de Dios regional hospital in Santa Ana, one of only five level-3 public </span><span style="font-size:small">hospitals in the country, where a network of 30 hospitals serves a population of over 6 million. As Director, Dr. Abrego has worked to implement the universal health care reform that is underway in El Salvador. Dr. Abrego comes to Boston to forge ties with medical professionals and institutions interested in sharing experiences and resources with hospitals in El Salvador.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:small;line-height:normal">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:small;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:small">“San Juan de Dios” Regional Hospital of the Province of Santa Ana, El Salvador. Built in 1842 and rebuilt and expanded over the years, this hospital is a 500 beds public hospital with 1,140 employees. It has two hundred and ten medical doctors and four hundred and twenty nurses. It provides over 900 outpatient appointments everyday and takes care of 200 emergencies </span></span></div>
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