[Sigiii-l] Question about Projects related to Health Care for Non Literate Populations

[Layla Abdelhady]

Dear Prof. Padmini Srinivasan

 

I take this opportunity to introduce you to an e-resource available on
health and epidemiology with over 3,000 presentations from renown
professors in the field from all over the world available for use to all
specialists...

 

This effort was initiated by Prof. Ron Laporte from Pittsburg
University, and is also accessible through the website of the
Bibliotheca Alexandrina

 

www.pitt.edu/~super1/

 

www.bibalex.org/SuperCourse/Index.htm

 

www.bibalex.org/english/initiatives/SupercourseArchive.htm

 

Hope this information will be beneficial also with further discussions
and communication with Prof. Ron Laporte, more can be added.

 

I would love to see these lectures with more visuals as well as audio to
allow researcher or user to listen to the explanation of the initial
initiator of the presentation.

 

Best Regards,

 

Layla Abdelhady

 

Advisor - Special Projects

Director's Office

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Alexandria, Egypt 25126

Tel: 002 03 483 9999 ext 1700

Fax: 002 03 4820470

Mobile 002 010 170 4453

email: layla.abdelhady at bibalex.org

www.bibalex.org

www.serageldin.com

www.bibalex.org/BioVisionAlexandria/

www.bibalex.org/Supercourse/

www.bibalex.org/English/initiatives/supercoursearchive.htm

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: sigiii-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigiii-l-bounces at asis.org] On
Behalf Of Padmini Srinivasan
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 6:43 PM
To: sigiii-l at asis.org
Subject: [Sigiii-l] Question about Projects related to Health Care for
Non Literate Populations

 

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

The topics of the recent list of panel proposals prompts me to make my

request.  My apologies in advance if this is not relevant to individual

interests. 

 

In collaboration with the Gandhigram Rural University, Dindigul and the

Meenakshi Mission Hospital in Madurai, both in Tamil Nadu, India I am
trying

to develop a project that involves digital libraries and health literacy
-

specifically targeting non literate populations.  I am motivated by
current

observations as for example by the 2006 World Health Report that at
least

1.3 billion people worldwide lack access to the most basic healthcare.

Overall there is an estimated need for about 4 million health care
workers.

A part-solution that I want to explore is to make visual materials on

disease (especially prevention and diagnosis) available to endangered

communities.  There is the parallel issue of delivery of these materials
and

for this I am working with the Computer Society of India, Library

Associations, colleges, and schools in Tamil Nadu.

 

Given the above background, I would very much appreciate hearing
especially

about projects, and any other pointers related to this goal.

 

I am interested not only in Tamil Nadu - it is more of a convenience
sample

- as I visit that area regularly.  My interest is in extensible,
flexible

visual materials that would work at least 60% of the way in other

communities. Thus I would also appreciate pointers in the context of
other

developing nations.  My focus is on basic health information with
minimal

requirements in terms of linguistic literacy.

 

Of course, if anyone would like to collaborate with me on working
through

some of these issues that would be wonderful.

 

I would be happy to take responses offline and summarize them for the
list.

 

With best wishes and thanks for your time.

 

Padmini

 

Padmini Srinivasan, Professor

School of Library and Information Science

Management Sciences

Computer Science (courtesy appointment)

The University of Iowa

http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/padmini

319-335-5708

padmini-srinivasan at uiowa.edu

 

On 2/7/07 11:42 AM, "caj3 at uwm.edu" <caj3 at uwm.edu> wrote:

 

> 

> Ajit Pyati has also submitted two proposals:

> 

> CT-Mediated Diaspora Studies: New Directions in Immigrant Information

> Behavior Research (co-sponsored by SIG-USE)

> 

> Participants:

> 

> Clara Chu, UCLA

> Karen Fisher, U Washington

> Ajit Pyati, UCLA

> Ramesh Srinivasan, UCLA

> Nadia Caidi, U Toronto

> 

> Crossing the digital divide with Charity, Public Goods or Business
Models?

> 

> Moderators: Sarah Webb, Syracuse; Ajit Pyati, UCLA

> 

> Michel Menou, Somos at Telecentros

> Renee Kuriyan, Akshaya Project, Kerala; UC Berkeley

> One Child Per Laptop organizational representative

> Randy Stoecker, University of Wisconsin-Madison

> 

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