Dear GKD Members! Health care is among priority sectors in developing countries, especially in Africa. Three of out of eight Millennium Development Goals are related to health. Many people perish daily from infectious and other diseases due to poor health care conditions. Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) offer a great promise to save human lives by improving health delivery and access to much needed medical knowledge. How can ICTs make a difference in improving health in developing countries? See our new Highlight on Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Health Care Delivery in Africa at: http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=369724
*** As a part of our Meet the Champions series aimed at highlighting leadership and expertise among ICT for Development community members, we have interviewed our advisors Holly Ladd and Mary Oakes Smith. Ms. Ladd, the Executive Director of Satellife, provides an in-depth look at the challenges and potential of using ICT for health with a special focus on the use of handheld computers (PDAs) by health-care practitioners in Africa and the pioneering role of SATELLIFE that was recognized by the Stockholm Challenge award lately. + Read and discuss Ms. Ladd's DG interview here: http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=367989 Mary Oakes Smith discusses key challenges, needs and priorities for the use of ICTs in health delivery in Africa and cites two examples of successful application of ICTs in Malawi and Tanzania. + Read and discuss Ms. Smith's DG interview here: http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=371368 Also, in a related interview conducted by the HIV/AIDS topic, Dr. Malcolm Bryant, Medical Director of Satellife, is focusing on the expanding use of ICTs in HIV/AIDS program design and implementation. + Read Mr. Bryant's DG interview here: http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/130640/sdm/docview?docid=366014 Please contribute to our constantly growing community knowledge base on ICT for Health by sharing interesting Internet resources and comments on the resources which are already in our database. Send them to us by email or post directly here: <http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/dg-contribute/?keyword_list=2 74295> Feel free to send us your own articles on this topic which we will be happy to publish on this Highlight. Oleg Petrov, Editor, ICT for Development Development Gateway ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** 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.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
