Hello
Last week, I participated in a forum in Geneva, focused on "toward
global access to health", in a session dedicated to medical on-line
information. One of the organiser of this forum is involved in a project
called RAFT. The core activity of the RAFT is the webcasting of
interactive medical courses. They put the emphasis on knowledge sharing
across care professionals, usually in the form of presentations and
dialogs between experts in different countries. The technology for the
webcasting works with a slow (25 kbits/sec) Internet Connexion.
They feature several activities. But a strong emphasis is put on the
development of capacities for the creation, maintenance and publication
of quality medical didactic content. More is available on
http://raft.hcuge.ch
After discussion with them, it seems that two domains should be
developed. Amongst those the creation of content...
People in charge know our project, and invited us purposefully to the
forum to make contact. After discussion, we decided to meet for a longer
time and with more people involved to discuss potential paths for
collaboration. It so happens that I'll be again in Geneva, in transit,
next week, so I will take this opportunity to meet them again.
I'll be very happy that those of you who are healthcare professionals
have a look at the project. It is limited to french speaking countries
(with a country in focus, Mali), but many documents are translated due
to the international implications. I find such projects absolutely
fascinating. I doubt very much the very specialised content could ever
be produced on our projects (likely, wikibooks), but if it is produced
under a free licence, we might host it. Besides, they could make use of
our general content to support their own content. Last, this project
imply the creation of "internet spot", with tech support. It could be
possible to stimulate/organisation participation to Wikipedia using this
frame.
This was just the 10 minutes to inform you of stuff being discussed.
More later.
Ant
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Last week, I participated in a forum in Geneva, focused on "toward
global access to health", in a session dedicated to medical on-line
information. One of the organiser of this forum is involved in a project
called RAFT. The core activity of the RAFT is the webcasting of
interactive medical courses. They put the emphasis on knowledge sharing
across care professionals, usually in the form of presentations and
dialogs between experts in different countries. The technology for the
webcasting works with a slow (25 kbits/sec) Internet Connexion.
They feature several activities. But a strong emphasis is put on the
development of capacities for the creation, maintenance and publication
of quality medical didactic content. More is available on
http://raft.hcuge.ch
After discussion with them, it seems that two domains should be
developed. Amongst those the creation of content...
People in charge know our project, and invited us purposefully to the
forum to make contact. After discussion, we decided to meet for a longer
time and with more people involved to discuss potential paths for
collaboration. It so happens that I'll be again in Geneva, in transit,
next week, so I will take this opportunity to meet them again.
I'll be very happy that those of you who are healthcare professionals
have a look at the project. It is limited to french speaking countries
(with a country in focus, Mali), but many documents are translated due
to the international implications. I find such projects absolutely
fascinating. I doubt very much the very specialised content could ever
be produced on our projects (likely, wikibooks), but if it is produced
under a free licence, we might host it. Besides, they could make use of
our general content to support their own content. Last, this project
imply the creation of "internet spot", with tech support. It could be
possible to stimulate/organisation participation to Wikipedia using this
frame.
This was just the 10 minutes to inform you of stuff being discussed.
More later.
Ant
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