Anjali Ankula (Kerala Southern India, kanthari) Anjali replaced an alumni tracking database and provided a new alumni networking platform for Kanthari, an international scholarship-based training organization based in Kerala, Southern India. During the summer Anjali replaced the database for tracking alumni with a simplified solution that makes it easier to maintain and allows for more robust reporting and data analysis. She also provided a new off-the-shelf subscription se

Taylor Michell & Raymond Li - Jamaica, University Hospital of the West Indies Taylor and Raymond worked as a team which included a student from the University of Technology, Jamaica on a research project to collect step activity from patients and match it to clinical health data. Diabetes in Jamaica is found in 12% of the population who are 15 years or older, and it is the leading cause of death of women in Jamaica. The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) working w

Brittany Pruitt (Palau, Social Security Administration Health Care Fund) Brittany laid the groundwork for a medical records database for the Health Care Fund, Palau's first national healthcare financing program managed under the Social Security Administration. 2021 is the first year that TCinGC worked with the SSA in Palau. The SSA manages the Health Care Fund for the nation and needs help gathering data to better predict future health outcomes and costs based on claims paid

Curtis Lee (Palau, Conservation Society) Curtis worked to normalize the data tracking Palau’s protected areas, a key tool used by the Conservation Society in their work to protect Palau’s natural environment. This summer was the first year that TCinGC partnered with the Palau Conservation Society (PCS) which is dedicated to the protection of Palau’s unique environment and works to raise community capacity to steward biodiversity and natural resources. The PCS tracks a list

Laknath Gunathilake (Palau, Financial Institutions Commission) Laknath automated the loading process for bank records to migrate quarterly bank records for the FIC, charged with maintaining a financial regulatory and supervisory system for the Republic of Palau. Over the summer Laknath continued work that TCinGC student consultants started in 2018, 2019 and 2020 to automate the collection of bank transactions, highlight potentially fraudulent transactions and summarize bankin

Yaxuan (Rebecca) Li - Palau, Ministry of Education Rebecca created an automated system for validated and correcting scanned test data for Palau English Reading Assessment for Palau’s Ministry of Education. Rebecca worked this summer with Keizy Shiro to streamline the process of collecting and analyzing the test results from the Palau English Reading Assessment (PERA). The tests are taken on 'bubble-format' sheets which are then scanned by optical character reader. The scann

Meghna Chhabra (Palau, Ministry of Education) Meghna established a cloud-based environment for running custom applications for the Palau Ministry of Education. The Palau Ministry of Education is TCinGC's longest running Global Community Partnership. Over more than 16 years of working with TCinGC, the student consultants have delivered many lasting technology solutions for the MOE. Edwel Oberong, the longtime Director of IT for the MOE, recently retired. He saw a need to si

Saachi Telwai - Jamaica, University Hospital of the West Indies Saachi automated a paper-based form for collecting information on any non-compliance related to patient safety for the University Hospital of the West Indies in Kingston Jamaica. This is the first time working with the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), a research and University hospital located in Kingston, Jamaica. Saachi worked with Wayne Little, the Director of Applications, to automate the syste