Triangle Initiative: Creating Digital Tools for Education, Research & Community
The Triangle Initiative is a strategic effort of Columbia University's Center for New Media Teaching and Learning to create digital tools and capacities that serve the intersecting interests of education, research, and the larger community.
"The revolution in digital technology has exacerbated the differences among people... The challenge of the future is to leverage more in the interest of the many with little and to create the conditions for a greater democratization of human possibilities that the explosive technology movements of our time make possible, always remembering that the technology does not dictate its use, but we, its inventors."
- Frank Moretti, executive director, CCNMTL
Our Partners
Building upon a proven behavioral intervention called “SMART Couples” which we developed at the HIV Center, our team is working with the CCNMTL Triangle Initiative to design a new multimedia intervention in South Africa called SMART+SA. This new computer-based system can be used by non-professional peer counselors to help patients enlist the assistance of partners, friends, and other people from their social support network so that together they can understand the importance of taking their medications as prescribed and to maintain high levels of treatment adherence.
- Robert Remien, Research Scientist, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, and Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
In The News
Press Release: CCNMTL Partners with Social Work Faculty on $3.3 Million Grant
October 20, 2008. A $3.3 million, five-year grant was awarded to Dr. Nabila El-Bassel of the Columbia University School of Social Work by the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study the efficacy of a multimedia HIV prevention program to...
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South Africa Trip Informs Drug Adherence Project
March 31, 2008. CCNMTL staff accompanied Dr. Robert Remien, research scientist at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, on a fact-finding mission to Cape Town, South Africa as part of an NIMH-supported project on HIV-treatment adherence known as...
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Current Projects
4Cs Calculator: Collateral Consequences of Criminal Charges
This resource compares the collateral consequences of criminal charges across of variety of doctrinal areas. The 4Cs Calculator is a Triangle Initiative Project, which means that it will serve multiple communities in a variety of ways: faculty can build case studies around it, lawyers can use it to help them better counsel their clients, judges can use it to help assure appropriate sentencing, and public policy researchers can use it as a lens through which to examine the matrix of the New York State legal system.
Connect
Connect is a couples-level intervention for heterosexual couples at risk for HIV/STIs developed by the Social Intervention Group at the School of Social Work. The intervention has been proven to reduce risky behaviors in committed heterosexual couples, the fastest growing HIV-infected group in the US. Principal Investigator Susan Witte and...
SMART +SA
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is supporting CCNMTL and Dr. Robert Remien, a research scientist at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, with a two-year grant to adapt and pilot test a multimedia version of SMART Couples, an HIV-treatment adherence program that has been shown to be effective in New York City HIV care clinics. The grant will allow the program to extend its reach to South Africa, which has one of the highest rates of HIV in the world.
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