UnaMesa supports teams of innovators improving education, health care, and other services.

UnaMesa purpose: Learning to Serve

The idea for UnaMesa began with a simple question, why do cell phones, computers, cars, and other technology gadgets get better every year while education, health care, and other services seem to get worse?

For technology, we have very powerful R&D organizations continually innovate and create better and better experiences. Unfortunately, schools, clinics, and service agencies do not have the equivalent of an IBM Research Center or Bell Labs constantly creating innovative services that deliver better experiences for students and patients.

UnaMesa creates a public R&D space where people from industry, academia, and NGOs can work together using best practices to:

• learn what works in practice to improve experiences for both providers and beneficiaries
• create new infrastructure that serves specific, unmet needs
• help others replicate successful approaches with the goal of reaching everyone with the best knowledge and care possible

Contact Info

UnaMesa Association
2882 Sand Hill Rd #118
Menlo Park, CA 94025

email: support at unamesa.org

The UnaMesa Association, a nonprofit, charitable organization based in Silicon Valley, supports the research and development of practical tools that help educators, healthcare providers, and communities improve services and reduce costs. UnaMesa provides these practitioners with a "commons" of knowledge and tools created through projects that bring skilled people together around shared problems, such as secure data exchange, to rapidly identify practical solutions, test approaches in real situations, and spread the resulting best practices through community-based training and universally accessible information services.

The UnaMesa Association has been classified as a 501(c)3 public charity by the IRS division of the US government.

Last update: 2007/10/10