<div dir="ltr">Sounds great.  Remember, gathering broad amount of data from a pilot project will be very important in refining, scaling, transferring any applications you ultimately create. Best of luck!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Pia Waugh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greebo@pipka.org">greebo@pipka.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi all,<br>
<br>
<quote who="Martin Langhoff"><br>
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> exactly. There's a lot of fun to be had, and a lot to learn with this.<br>
> Might be useful in some cases (perhaps growing number of cases, if<br>
> connectivity improves over time) and more things become viable.<br>
><br>
> For health purposes, it will probably not be useful, except for a tiny<br>
> % of cases. If people want health tools, that's a different project.<br>
><br>
> Let's refocus that camera on collaboration and education.<br>
<br>
</div>The Videochat app will largely be used for counselling, speech pathology,<br>
and generally for remote support to students in regions where they don't<br>
have easy access to any of the above. Obviously they'll also have fun with<br>
it, and we are looking at connecting up classrooms of children to do<br>
cultural exchanges and learning. I believe it will play a basic eHealth role<br>
in future where children/adults can communicate with health professionals<br>
for basic remote health service, which, although would require very high res<br>
for anything particualrly complicated, would  be better than what some of<br>
these communities currently have.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Pia<br>
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