Links of interest c/o HIFA2015 list

The following links appeared in recent HIFA2015 Healthcare Information For All posts:

AuthorAID: http://www.authoraid.info/ is a global research community that provides networking, mentoring, resources and training for researchers in developing countries.

IICD - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Development: http://www.iicd.org/

Education for Health: http://www.educationforhealth.net/ an Open Access Journal.

Scientific Eletronic Library Online: Scientific Eletronic Library Online

Welsh Annual Conference 2010: http://www.welshconfed.org/WelshAnnualConference2010.htm

Welsh Information Literacy Framework: http://www.library.wales.org/index.php?id=7498

PLoS journal on Neglected Tropical Diseases: http://www.plosntds.org/home.action

Knowledge 4 Health eToolkits: http://www.k4health.org/toolkits

NCBI.NCI Paper: Poor reporting and inadequate searches were apparent in systematic reviews of adverse effects http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18394536

Health Speaks: pilots result in 266 new local language health articles http://blog.google.org/2010/12/health-speaks-pilots-result-in-266-new.html

ERMED: Electronic Resources in Medicine Consortium http://www.nmlermed.in/

Global Health and Prevention calendar: http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec40851/index.htm

Mother Pelican ~ Vol. 6, No. 10, October 2010

FYI ... the pelican journal of sustainable development has been renamed
*Mother Pelican* in honor of the *Human Being* she represents.

The October 2010 issue has been posted:
http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n10page1.html

Going Forward After the UN MDG Review Summit

1. Current Status of the Millennium Development Goals
2. Review of the "Keeping the Promise" Declaration
3. Timidity of National Governments and Global Citizens
4. Ms. Michelle Bachelet and the UN Women Entity
5. Sustainable Human Development and the MDGs
6. Links to Key UN and MDG Documents and Resources
7. Links to News and Reports about the MDG Summit
8. Current Research on Sustainable Human Development
9. A Meditation on Sustainable Human Development

Supplements:

Supplement 1: Advances in Sustainable Development
Supplement 2: Directory of Sustainable Development Resources
Supplement 3: Sustainable Development Simulation (SDSIM)

Articles:

Socioeconomic Democracy: A Psycho-Politico-Socio-Economic System, by Robley George.

Composition and Trends of Homestead Agroforestry in Bangladesh, by Sourovi Zaman et al.

Will Working Mothers' Brains Explode? The Popular New Genre of Neurosexism, by Cordelia Fine.

A Paradise Built in Hell: Communities that Rise to the Challenge of Disaster, by Rebecca Solnit.

We Need Millennium Development RIGHTS, Not Just Goals, by Phyllis Bennis.

Feedback is cordially invited!

Sincerely,
Luis

Luis T. Gutierrez, Ph.D.
The Pelican Web
Editor, Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Development
http://pelicanweb.org
A monthly, CC license, free subscription, open access e-journal

My source:
e-Network of Academia in Social Sciences (e-NASS)

Global health: Care logistics in-deed

Although the previous post -

Care Logistics: have model will travel ...

- differentiated between what we might term mechanistic and humanistic logistics, there is a great deal of overlap:

communications, time, priorities, purposes, service, quality, processes ....

Global health has featured on W2tQ and it is here that the true dimensions of logistics can be defined. I may be confusing logistics and scale, but if I am then the challenge of logistics presents itself by virtue of scale and in global health the focus upon populations, nations, medical conditions and physical environments, climates and topography.

While the Wikipedia page on global health does not explicitly refer to logistics it is there in the shadows: it contributes to inequality, illiteracy, poverty, public ill-health (and mental too), pandemics ...

Logistics is there in the light too; the torch of disaster relief, the many development organisations, the ethos and values of the Millennium Development Goals. ...

WHO Guidance Global Discussion Forum 26 July - 6th August, 2010

Announcement:

Please pass this invitation onto to your networks and colleagues and encourage them to join this virtual discussion forum.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the WHO Guidance forum invite you to join the

WHO would like you to join a 2 week virtual discussion forum designed to provide an opportunity for people to share their ideas, experience and opinions about the type of evidence-based guidance WHO should produce to support the reduction of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. We want to make this guidance more accessible and focused on addressing technical and health systems challenges and meeting the information needs of people working in this field.

Your contribution to this discussion will help us to identify priority policy or practice issues in which it would be helpful to have either a policy brief, guideline or other type of resource materials produced.

REGISTER NOW! http://my.ibpinitiative.org/whoguidance

During this two-week forum you will receive one-two emails per day: one email to introduce the day’s questions, and one daily digest of the contributions. Five questions will be addressed, and each discussed over two consecutive days. All contributions received will be acknowledged.

Once you have registered you can participate in the forum simply by responding to the daily e-mails or sending a message to:

whoguidance at my.ibpinitiative.org

For any questions on this Virtual Global Discussion Forum please contact the forum facilitator: Cordelia Coltart at: coltartc at who.int

Many thanks and we look forward to hearing your views during this exciting venture.

Cordelia Coltart
Intern WHO
MBBS MPH MRCP BSc DTM&H
Reproductive Health and Research
E-mail: coltartc at who.int

World Health Organization
20, avenue Appia
CH-1211 Geneva 27
visit WHO at: www.who.int

My source:
Sandra Land, GANM (Global Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery) ganm at ibp.wa-research.ch

iConference 2011

From: Jonathan Grudin
Subject: A personal view on iConference 2011

Hello,

Please publicize iConference 2011, which will be in Seattle February 8-11 and has a submission deadline of August 30.

I’d like to add special encouragement. Some people including me see this as a possible turning point for the Information Conferences. The “iCaucus” has rapidly expanded to include over 25 schools in Europe, Asia, and North America, but more to the point, this iConference is the first to reach outside that community. It has a large, varied, illustrious conference and program committee, whose members have said they will attend. It was organized further in advance. The next conference, in Toronto, is already being planned as well.

Some people note that it feels like CHI in 1983 or CSCW in 1988, a coalescing and opportunity. It may or may not turn out that way, but an astute student or senior person, while not abandoning CSCW or CHI or other venues, might be well-advised to also participate in an iConference or two. (Starting with this conference, proceedings will be in the ACM Digital Library.) When universities ramp up again, iSchools are likely to be hiring. I’ve expressed my vote of confidence by publishing a short paper that I liked a lot in iConference 2010, despite it not being in the ACM DL.

At the end of a recent NSF sociotechnical research symposium, Geoff Bowker gave a spirited exhortation to participate and form the vanguard of the iConference series. In that spirit, please forward this to people who might be interested, encouraging them to consider submitting and to attending.

Cheers – Jonathan

(full disclosure, I’m co-chairing the conference with Harry Bruce – but the conference and its opportunity was the work of those who came before; Geoff was responding the conference as it already exists)

My source: CI researchers list

Global Pulse 2010 March 29th - 31st #gp2010

I have just registered for:


From March 29^th through March 31^st you will have the chance to participate in something truly exciting. Inspired by President Obama’s “New Beginnings” speech to Cairo University, the U.S. Government is hosting Global Pulse 2010, an innovative, online brainstorming discussion.

During this unique event, individuals throughout the world will have a chance to participate in and influence a global conversation centered on 10 hot-button social issues facing the global community within the fields of science and technology, entrepreneurship, and human development.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

GANM's - Dr. Patricia Abbott will be a featured expert during the event. She will host a discussion on E-Health from 11:00am-noon (eastern time) on March 30, 2010.

Why is Global Pulse 2010 important?

Global Pulse 2010 will offer a unique way for community members to connect and engage, build new relationships and share their ideas on how we can strengthen our global partnerships to better address our shared global challenges.

Global Pulse 2010 is an open forum that will highlight ten broad topics:

• Empowering Women and Girls
• Enabling Essential Education
• Building Stronger Partnerships
• Exercising Political and Civil Rights
• Inspiring a New Generation
• Promoting Global Health
• Advancing Entrepreneurship, Trade & Economic Opportunity
• Fostering Science, Technology & Innovation
• Supporting a Sustainable Planet
• Pursuing Grand Challenges

How to Register for Global Pulse 2010?

To register please visit:https://www.collaborationjam.com/minijam3/globalpulse2010/registration/
For more information, please visit us at www.GlobalPulse2010.gov

You may also join us on Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, and LinkedIn to stay up to date on key Global Pulse 2010 activities. Stay tuned for more information on Global Pulse 2010!

PLEASE NOTE: We want to hear from your network. If you know of others who would be interested in participating in this event, please feel free to forward this email. As there are a limited number of virtual seats in Global Pulse 2010, we ask that these individuals complete and submit this brief form available at www.GlobalPulse2010.gov/registration Pending the number of available seats, slotted individuals will be notified so that they may then formally register to participate in Global Pulse 2010.

My source:
GANM (Global Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery)

Health & holistic care in the 21st and 22nd Century

With the technical means at our disposal it is relatively easy to provide information to the masses. Facebook, Google and advertisers are increasingly better versed to target information not just our way, but your way.

Health education and preventive medicine programs depend on the dissemination of health and well-being information, that in turn also relies on access to an expanding digital infrastructure. Equality of access to information communications technologies is now the province of human rights and not just manifestos whether ambitious or binned.

There is much talk of trying to categorise the stage (and hence maturity) of our civilization: hence we talk about being in the information age.

In health care terms this is clearly the case. The provision of information is a key operation and goal of the UN and WHO as per the Millennium Development Goals. Amid the MDG and multiple other related initiatives we need to take care that the habits of many thousands of years do not dilute our efforts.

There is a danger that just as we have broadcast seeds to grow crops,
we will repeat the exercise with technology's reach and
so many seeds will fall on stony ground and
so not take root and
grow.

As people working in the development field know only too well, initiatives like Health Information for All by 2015 and national efforts are not just about the provision of information. In some respects that is not as big a problem as it once was (though is still presents a huge challenge) with community, urban and developmental informatics. Mobile phones and various technologies can get information to people. Increasingly though the problem is one of sufficient or extended literacy. This extends the conventional educational literacy and notion of the 3R's - Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic.

What knowledge do I need about my health and that of the 'other' gender and ethnic groups with whom I share this 'home'. What knowledge do I need in order to live long and then be able to prosper and do so sustainably?

Allied with the problem of literacy is seeking the attention of individuals. This perhaps is why infant, primary and secondary schooling are so important - learning to attend is the most important lesson of all. Especially as health and well-being messages must compete in the multi-spectral communications channels polluted with so much dross.

The MDG make clear the above requirement in Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education:

2.1. Net enrollment and retention in primary education
2.2. Proportion of pupils starting Grade 1 who also reach the last grade of primary education
2.3. Literacy rate of 15-24 year old #

With the requisite baseline - personalised literacies and the information that HIFA2015 and others can provide then individuals can achieve a level of health and well-being knowledge commensurate with living (and dying well) in the 21st century:

and 2nd-by-2nd the

growing proportion of the global population that will know the
22nd century. ...

# Thanks to Remi Akinmade and HIFA-2015 list
http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Host.aspx?Content=Indicators/OfficialList.htm

Literacy on W2tQ
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search/label/literacy

Scholarship for PhD/DBA in Development Informatics at University of Manchester

Here is a scholarship opportunity at the University of Manchester shared by Mr. Richard Heeks and Mr. Brian Nicholson, Directors of the Centre for Development Informatics:

The Centre for Development Informatics at the University of Manchester is seeking high-quality PhD and DBA candidates to research topics on ICTs/information systems and socio-economic development. Some scholarships are available for those starting in September 2010; deadline dates vary but many require application before end February or end March 2010.

My source: Community Informatics list

Additional links:

http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/postgraduate/research/areas/researchopportunities/

Call for case experiences on capacity development - final 2 weeks to enter

Dear Peter,

The Impact Alliance is working closely with the UNDP to gather capacity development experiences from around the world as part of the 'Capacity is Development' campaign. The members of our network have some amazing experiences to share, and this is a great opportunity to showcase your hard work, grow the knowledge base of what works and influence policy makers. We look forward to hearing from you!

The United Nations Development Programme is pleased to announce the opening of the 'Capacity is Development' Knowledge Fair and invites you to share your experience. The knowledge fair seeks to collect experiences on policies, investments and programs that have proven successful in driving human and institutional capacity development in diverse settings around the world. These experiences will feed directly into the 'Capacity is Development' global event.

We invite you to submit an entry by Friday, 5 February, 2010.

Your entry can take the form of a short two-page case story, video or image.

The top five finalists will be awarded an expense paid trip to personally showcase their work at the 'Capacity is Development' global event in Marrakech, Morocco 17-19 March, 2010.

Entries should attempt to illuminate through words or images the impact of capacity development in practice. While diverse expressions of capacity development are welcomed, there is a special interest in gathering stories from three priority focal areas:

• Sub-national capacity development: local solutions, national strengths.
• Capacity development in post-conflict and transitional situations.
• Fostering the rise and resilience of middle-income countries.

For more detailed guidelines and online entry forms please visit:

www.capacityisdevelopment.org/knowledgefair or contact us at capacityisdevelopment@gmail.com for any questions or to simply alert us about an interesting experience.

Please forward this message to other networks and colleagues.

The UNDP Capacity Development Group is working in partnership with the Impact Alliance and LenCD - Learning Network on Capacity Development to implement this initiative.

(I am adding a link to this event at the POLITICAL domain resource page.)