Ime, If you haven't already this is a good group for content related work:
HIF-net: working together to improve access to reliable information for healthcare providers in developing and transitional countries. Send list messages to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To join or leave the list, send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. If joining, please include name, organization, country, and brief description of professional interests. Archive at: http://www.dgroups.org/groups/HIF-net/ asangansi wrote: > Hello Friends, > > I'm happy to be allowed into the group. I never knew of such a > group...google doesnt seem to pick the yahoo groups? > > I am an informatician with a clinical background (MBBS). I live and > work in Nigeria. I believe in the open source principle and I think > it is great to be with other people who share this belief. > > However, the digital divide is so enormous in subsaharan Africa and > some other developing countries, that the presence of open source is > only beginning to make some impact. Many of the open source wares > require a great deal of IT knowledge. For example, installing and > configuring openMRS can be an ordeal. > > Most IT professionals do not find the health field attractive. So, > the onus many times lies on the health worker/informatician. > > Most of my work has been on studying the factors that influence IT > adoption in health and health workers use of IT. How can we open > this bridging field of informatics to the common health worker? > > Recently (a week ago), we set up a wiki at www.wiki.ehealthpedia.org > to help co-ordinate efforts and leverage collaboration for open > content for health informatics. > > I would like to invite members of this open community to support > this knowledge-for-development approach by contributing ideas and > materials to the wiki. > > Another related idea is to see how business models based on open- > source/open-content can be leveraged on such collaborative platforms. > > Cheers, > Dr Ime Asangansi > > Contibute to www.wiki.ehealthpedia.org > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > >
