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TECHNOLOGY REVIEW NAMES VIKRAM SHEEL KUMAR,
PRESIDENT AND CEO OF DIMAGI, TECHNOLOGY HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEAR

Kumar Honored For His Innovative Work in Designing Interactive Systems That Enable Management of Chronic Diseases in Large, Rural Communities

CAMBRIDGE , MA , September 30, 2004 – Today at its annual Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT (http://www.tretc.com), Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation, announced that it has awarded its annual “Technology in the Service of Humanity” award to Dr. Vikram Sheel Kumar, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dimagi, Inc.

Kumar, 28, is being honored for Dimagi's work in developing interactive systems that motivate health workers and patients to care for and manage chronic diseases. His innovative technologies include:

• Ca:sh, a mobile electronic medical record (EMR) system designed to be used by outreach workers in large communities to address the problems of poor data flow and logistical support for rural paramedical workers, such as those in the State of Haryana , India . Dimagi, in association with Media Lab Asia and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, developed a handheld software application to facilitate ordered data collection, immunization scheduling, pre-natal care for pregnant mothers and recording routine demographic changes in the community. In operation since February 2002, Ca:sh's greatest supporters are the paramedical workers who no longer need to spend long hours manually transferring data from one ledger to the next. While in the field, the health workers are able to access previously unavailable data and benefit from the point of care decision support provided by the application. The system currently records and manages data from over 70,000 patients.

• DiaBetNet™, an integrated software system designed for the millions of children all over the world suffering from juvenile type I diabetes. DiaBetNet helps children monitor their diabetic status and teaches them about controlling a disease that most will have to live with throughout their lives. Intuitive games encourage children to measure and predict their sugar levels, while wireless technology transmits readings to a central database accessible to the children's doctors. In addition to facilitating the transfer of data from a patient to a centralized server, DiaBetNet builds a valuable support community for the patient.

• HIV Confidant, a system that uses handheld computers to confidentially distribute HIV results in a surveillance project at the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies in northern KwaZulu-Natal , South Africa . The system combines the advantages of linked anonymous HIV surveillance with the opportunity to offer patents counseling on their status without having to have a second blood sample taken.

Kumar was chosen from among Technology Review's 2004 TR100, a group of 100 individuals under age 35 whose innovative work in technology promises to have a profound impact on the world. Hailing from 14 countries, this year's nominees are recognized for their contributions in trans form ing the nature of technology in industries such as biotechnology, computing, and nanotechnology. The 2004 list includes innovators from well-know companies and institutions such as Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), Carnegie Mellon University , IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Harvard University , Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), MIT, and Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN).

Technology Review's complete TR100 list appears in the October 2004 issue of Technology Review, available currently at http://www.technologyreview.com and on newsstands September 28, 2004.

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