Modesto Ombiga wrote: > My name is Modesto Ombiga, and I am the Executive Director for an > organization that fights against HIV/AIDS and uses prevention strategies > for the reduction of HIV infection. I strongly believe that ICT is > powerful and can enhance development work. We need information to reach > the targeted people about development. It can be on any development > topic: clean water, healthy conditions, pandemic like HIV/AIDS, malaria, > etc. We need to communicate that message to the people by using a new > technology that accelerates the delivery of the message, hence the > Internet.
InfoDev: facilitating communications in response to HIV/AIDS in South-East Asia (UNAIDS Case Study, July 2001) <http://www.unaids.org/publications/documents/care/general/JC494-Infodev-E.p df> Over the last decade developed countries have experienced a transformation in the scope and reach of information technologies and infrastructures. However, this digital revolution has been slow to materialize in developing countries, further marginalizing them and creating a digital divide. Innovative ways must be explored to leverage these new technologies for a range of development opportunities in the HIV/AIDS field from distance learning to bringing basic HIV/AIDS prevention information to patients and practitioners. Harnessed to its full potential, basic e-mail and Internet facilities can serve as a powerful tool in the prevention of HIV/AIDS. In South-East Asia, UNAIDS has coordinated an infoDev project, a global grant programme funded and managed by the World Bank to promote innovative projects on the use of information technologies with a special emphasis on the needs of the poor in developing countries. Jacqueline Dubow infoDev Program Coordinator Voice 1-202-458-5445 Fax 1-202-522-3186 Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit infoDev at http://www.infoDev.org ------------ ***GKD is an initiative of the Global Knowledge Partnership*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.globalknowledge.org>
