[Health] McMaster Global Health and OLPC

[Rafael Ortiz]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Mark Brul <markbrul at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Nice to hear your interest, hopefully I can contribute a bit.
>
> My name is Mark Brul, fairly new in this health list. I have a master
> degree in biomedical engineer (health care technologies) obtained at the
> University of Twente, Holland. Nowadays I work as volunteer for Movimiento
> Foundation in Uruguay. Apart from that I work as researcher for Saxion
> University (Holland) doing research on activity monitoring and user centered
> design methods (beyond OLPC).
>
> I would like you to share the article I wrote for OLPC news<http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/uruguay/saludame_-_interactive_learnin.html>.
> And our work on the project called Saludame, about which we recently blog in
> English on our website <http://www.movimientofoundation.com/>.
>
> Briefly, in project Saludame we work in  a multidisciplinary team on
> developing a health education program for rural schools in Uruguay, using an
> educational game for the XO supported with didactical guides for the
> teachers. In April 2011 we start our pilot, after 8 months of development
> (start in June 2010).
>
> Hope to get in contact with you. For any questions, please send me an
> email.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mark Brul
>
>
>
>
Hi Mark

Good to know about saludame, it would be nice to have
this educational game in our activities.sugarlabs.org portal


http://activities.sugarlabs.org


For content we have the .xol bundles

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_a_collection



Glad to have you in the community!.






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> *From:* health-bounces at lists.laptop.org [mailto:
> health-bounces at lists.laptop.org] *On Behalf Of *Michael Mak
> *Sent:* maandag 10 januari 2011 11:28
> *To:* health at lists.laptop.org
> *Subject:* [Health] McMaster Global Health and OLPC
>
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
>
>
> My name is Michael Mak and I am a third year BHSc student, Global Health
> Specialization at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada.
>
>
>
> There is a growing interest from McMaster BHSc, Global Health
> Specialization in purchasing XO laptops to use and distribute for different
> NGOs that student join from the specialization.  With more attention driven
> to OLPC after my trip to Canada's North and another student's Masters thesis
> on OLPC in Ghana, my facilitator would like me to write a proposal to my
> assistant dean to spend the necessary $25 000 to purchase 100 laptops for
> next year's cohort.  Because that is quite a sum, I would love any help I
> can get in providing a convincing argument on the importance of getting the
> XOs in global health and development.  The health component and how the XO
> can be used for health practices (such as education, or even for diagnostic
> and/or electronic medical records) is an extremely vital one, especially
> since we are a health science discipline.
>
>
>
> Here are some points that I will need help and more information on:
>
>
>
>    - Why the XO should be purchased (for ex. Education, health, etc)
>    - How the XO can be used in a clinical/health care setting (very
>    important!) in a remote/rural environment
>    - Support for the XO laptop and training (training for the students
>    which I can help with) and technical support
>    - Hopefully a long-term partnership with OLPC
>
>
>
> Thanks so much everyone, I look forward to hearing your responses on the
> matter.
>
>
>
> Michael Mak
>
> BHSc III, Global Health Specialization
>
> Keewaytinook Okimakanak / K-NET Services
>
> OLPC Intern
>
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