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
MySmileBuddy
MySmileBuddy is funded by the NIH to address their Challenge Area on Health Disparities: "Trans-disciplinary Research to Integrate the Biological and Non-biological Determinants of Health to Address Health Disparities." MySmileBuddy aims to reduce Early Childhood Caries (ECC or severe tooth...
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...
Collateral Consequences Calculator
Collateral consequences to criminal charges present a problem to the fair and ethical administration of justice in the United States. There are often consequences to a criminal conviction even for seemingly minor crimes that are not written into a defendant's...
News
NIMH Awards New Grant to Extend Masivukeni Project
Grant Received to Develop Technology to Abate Intimate Partner Violence
MySmileBuddy Testing Begins Today
Our 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
| Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning 212.854.9058 ccnmtl@columbia.edu Site Map |  |