<div>Dear Neil and All,</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks alot for the good initiatives, you are undertaking to improve access to health information in the remote and unserved rural communities all over the world. I am working with grassroot communities in the Lake-Victoria region, Kenya. I am coming to UK in July for the PCF5 <A href="http://www.col.org/pcf5">www.col.org/pcf5</A> to present a paper on the Role of Technology in Enhancing Livelihood Support Options. I am interested in meeting and discussing the project with you. Kindly respond.</div> <div> </div> <div>Regards,</div> <div> </div> <div>Kennedy<BR><BR><B><I>Edward Cherlin <echerlin@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStartT|**|-~--> <DIV id=ygrp-mlmsg style="WIDTH: 655px; POSITION: relative"> <DIV id=ygrp-msg style="PADDING-RIGHT: 25px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; Z-INDEX: 1;
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campaign, and the HIFA<BR>> 2008 Challenge: Meeting the information needs of medical, nursing,<BR>> midwifery and allied health students worldwide.<BR>><BR>> The discussion is just under 20 minutes long and the MP3 file (17 Mb) is<BR>> freely available at:<BR>><BR>> <A href="http://www.thelancetstudent.com/2008/02/15/a-special-feature-on-the-hifa2015-network-and-a-catch-up-on-the-lancet-student/">http://www.thelance<WBR>tstudent.<WBR>com/2008/<WBR>02/15/a-special-<WBR>feature-on-<WBR>the-hifa2015-<WBR>network-and-<WBR>a-catch-up-<WBR>on-the-lancet-<WBR>student/</A><BR>><BR>><BR>> Best wishes,<BR>> Neil<BR>><BR>> Neil Pakenham-Walsh<BR>> Coordinator, HIFA2015<BR>><BR>> HIFA2015 profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of the Global<BR>> Healthcare Information Network, a non-profit organization that administers<BR>> the 'Healthcare Information For All by 2015' campaign (www.hifa2015.<WBR>org).<BR>> He has a special
interest in the availability and use of relevant,<BR>> reliable healthcare information in developing countries, especially at<BR>> primary and district levels.<BR><BR>This is wonderful. We need to coordinate among a number of other<BR>groups that are working on various parts of the problem. Let me<BR>introduce some of you to each other. I have introduced some of you<BR>before, but now we have a new group of friends and future colleagues<BR>to meet.<BR><BR>One Laptop Per Child considers itself primarily an education project,<BR>but by placing computers in schools worldwide in large quantities it<BR>also enables every other kind of information-<WBR>based program. OLPC has a<BR>health project which aims to make existing Free/Open Source health<BR>software available on its XO laptop and XS school server. This<BR>includes OpenVistA, a national-scale software system for hospitals and<BR>clinics with more than 200 applications, such as pharmacy, medical<BR>records, and so
on. It also includes a project proposed for Google<BR>Summer of Code (GSOC) to create a low-cost EKG system using the<BR>existing Measure activity on the XO. Measure functions as a digital<BR>oscilloscope. The EKG project will look at ways to gather and analyze<BR>multiple data streams, in addition to the hardware development. A<BR>prototype exists. More information on FOSS healthcare software is<BR>available through the Southern California Linux Expo conference<BR>schedule, <A href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/conference-info/schedules/">http://www.socallin<WBR>uxexpo.org/<WBR>scale6x/conferen<WBR>ce-info/schedule<WBR>s/</A><BR><BR>Earth Treasury means to connect schools around the world, and teach<BR>the students how to go into business together. Healthcare providers<BR>are included.<BR><BR>OneVillage Foundation grew out of an AIDS project in Africa, and is<BR>now working on an Open Digital Village concept as one of the most<BR>effective ways to deal with
health issues and much more. It has<BR>computer education and wireless projects in several countries. OVF is<BR>also working on creating a Free/Open Source Hardware community to<BR>bring the various existing projects together.<BR><BR>Engineers Without Borders Australia is interested in community<BR>data-gathering and management projects, including Geographic<BR>Information Systems (GIS), that is, mapping of data. Some of the<BR>applications to public health are obvious.<BR><BR>Tim Foresman is a geographer, chairman of the Fifth International<BR>Symposium on Digital Earth, and a leading force in applying GIS to<BR>development.<BR><BR>Partners in Health is provides outstanding and highly innovative<BR>health care services to about a million Haitians, and has expanded<BR>into Latin America, Africa, and Russia.<BR><BR>I don't have any contacts at Doctors Without Borders. Can somebody<BR>pass this on to them and invite them to join the discussion? Who else<BR>should be
involved?<BR><BR>We seem to have a problem. We can see that we all have reasons to work<BR>together, but we have no common meeting place, and I expect that most<BR>of us are on too many mailing lists and Wikis already. ^_^<BR><BR>> He qualified as a doctor in 1983 and worked<BR>> for 6 years in NHS hospital medicine, including 2 years in paediatrics. In<BR>> 1990 he moved into medical publishing and worked with the World Health<BR>> Organization, Medicine Digest, and the Wellcome Trust CD-ROM series<BR>> 'Topics in International Health'.<BR><BR>Tell me more. OLPC would like to be able to distribute this content,<BR>and to create more content for health education at every level.<BR><BR>> From 1996 to 2004 he developed and<BR>> managed the INASP-Health programme (International Network for the<BR>> Availability of Scientific Publications)<BR><BR>That's another vital topic for OLPC.<BR><BR>> and the eForum, HIF-net (Health<BR>> Information Forum).
He has worked as a medical officer in rural Ecuador<BR>> and Peru,<BR><BR>Do you know about the OLPC deployment in Perù?<BR><BR>> and in 2005 he worked alongside rural healthcare providers in<BR>> South India to assess local priorities in access and use of health<BR>> information. neil.pakenham-<WBR>walsh AT ghi-net.org<BR>><BR>> (*Medsin is a student-led network with an interest in global health and<BR>> health equity: www.medsin.org)<BR>><BR>> ************<WBR>*********<WBR>*********<WBR>*********<WBR>*********<WBR>*<BR>> THE HIFA2015 GOAL: By 2015, every person worldwide will have access to an informed healthcare provider. Join HIFA2015: Send your name, organization and brief description of interests to <A href="mailto:HIFA2015-admin%40dgroups.org">HIFA2015-admin@<WBR>dgroups.org</A><BR>> HIFA2015 email group website: www.dgroups.<WBR>org/groups/<WBR>hifa2015<BR>> Further info on HIFA2015: www.hifa2015.<WBR>org<BR><BR>-- <BR>Edward
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