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, do."
- Frank Moretti, CCNMTL executive director
Recent Projects
Mobile Technologies for Community Health
CCNMTL is partnering with the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health of the Mailman School of Public Health to develop, test, and disseminate a health information management system relying on low-cost cellular phone technology. This system, being developed in partnership with the Ghana Health Service, CCNMTL, and the Grameen...
Multimedia WORTH
Multimedia WORTH (Women On The Road To Health) is the web-based version of an HIV prevention program that teaches communication and negotiation skills, delivers health information, and facilitates empowerment and feelings of self worth to at-risk women in the criminal justice system. CCNMTL is partnering with the Social Intervention Group...
Masivukeni
CCNMTL and Dr. Robert Remien, a research scientist at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies and associate professor of clinical psychology (in psychiatry), received a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to create and pilot Masivukeni, a multimedia version of an HIV-treatment adherence program, SMART Couples, that has been effective in New York City HIV care clinics. The grant allows the program to extend its reach to South Africa, which has one of the highest rates of HIV in the world. Originally named SMART SA+, Masivukeni is a CCNMTL Triangle Initiative project that also aims to enrich Columbia courses at the Mailman School of Public Health and other programs focused on health disparities.
News
Health Facilitators Trained to Use New Multimedia WORTH Intervention
November 4, 2009. CCNMTL and the Social Intervention Group (SIG) at the Columbia School of Social Work trained health facilitators in New York City last week to use a multimedia HIV prevention program designed forMasivukeni Pilot Underway in South Africa
July 8, 2009. After more than a year of development, CCNMTL and partners from the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies and the University of Cape Town have begun collecting data from the pilotCCNMTL 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 aOur Partners
"The Triangle Initiative contributes enormously to both my research and my teaching. Developing Multimedia Connect with CCNMTL staff, we are producing new teaching tools and materials for our students at the Columbia School of Social Work alongside developing a more streamlined, efficient way to deliver a complex HIV prevention program for couples at risk."
- Susan Witte, Associate Professor, School of Social Work
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 Masivukeni. 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 maintain high levels of treatment adherence.
- Robert Remien, Research Scientist, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, and Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
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