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<div>Here is a link to work ongoing involving ICT and Health:</div>
<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.comminit.com/materials/ma2005/materials-2583.html" target="_blank">http://www.comminit.com/materials/ma2005/materials-2583.html</a>.</div>
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<div>The project is: <strong>Handhelds for Health<br></strong>SATELLIFE's Experience in Africa and Asia<br>by SATELLIFE</div>
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<div>And some of the main topics are:</div>
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<li>Health workers are eager for access to information and quickly adopt the handheld as both a tool for data collection and for reference material
<li>Lack of power in the field can be addressed by the use of solar chargers
<li>Introducing technology into the workplace, like any other change needs to be managed and works best when their is a local champion to encourage participation.
<li>While handhelds are great tools for close ended survey questions, they are less suitable for open ended questions where text entry is required.
<li>Cost savings over paper-based processes can be significant. </li></li></li></li></li></ul></div>
<div><strong>[Comment: We may, here, look to the time when in multisakeholder parlance "consumer" access is </strong><strong>also amply notated].</strong></div>
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<div>The report states: "<font color="#000080" size="2">This document focuses not only on the technical aspects of setting up a handheld computer project, but discusses organisational issues and promotion of local ownership. The authors look at how to include local stakeholders in project planning, and the importance of having local advocates."
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<div>Best wishes, LDMF.</div>
<div>Linda D. Misek-Falkoff, Ph.D., J.D..</div>
<div>National Disability Party; International Disability Caucus; Persons with Pain International; *Respectful Interfaces* (Programme: Communications and Coordination Committee for the Untied Nations); Geneva and Tunis WSIS Participant.
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