Mike Schmoker said “In a research-poor context, isolated experience replaces professional knowledge as the dominant influence on how teachers teach.”
UbuntuNet Alliance carries the vision of becoming
a facilitator of innovative solutions to the health challenges facing the African
continent through promotion of telemedicine.
held a Symposium on
Ebola as a pre-conference event to UbuntuNet-Connect 2014 held on 12th
November with an impressive audience of conference participants.
Mali’s Doctor Ousman Ly, General Director of National Agency of Tele-health and Medical
Informatics in the country’s Ministry of Health, despite being called to
attend to a case of Ebola that Mali reported earlier that month and a break in
the data link, availed his presentation
that offered insight into a new e-health strategy of using ICT tools in Mali to create
awareness but also track Ebola in real
time.
The electronic alert system for Ebola is an application
developed for mobile phones that allows real-time trace data for Ebola and all
diseases of epidemic potential. This application is a digital display interface
called Digital Integrated Health Information System (SNISI) and is installed on
phones responsible for Health Information System at the District [Mali].
Representing the Ministry of Health in Zambia, Dr
Constantine Malama, Virologist and
Public Health Specialist indicated that Zambia was currently conducting
research on Ebola and allayed fears of the virus spreading to Zambia directly
from the fruit bat indicating that a
recent study had shown that the country’s climate does not support the fruit
bat which is a natural career of Ebola.
The Doctor further indicated that Zambia had
instituted professional health checks at its airports to screen all entrants
into the country and had already created Ebola isolation facilities in a remote
location.
Another global Telemedicine event is slated for
December 2014 at Asia Telemedicine Symposium (ATS2014) to be held on December 13,
2014 at the Telemedicine Development Center of Asia (TEMDEC) of Kyushu
University Hospital in Japan.
According to Yasuichi Kitamura, the board of director of Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN), the regional research and education network of Asia Pacific area the symposium brings together doctors to tackle emerging medical issues.
“One of the working groups of APAN is the medical working group. This WG is very active for having the collaboration about the telemedicine. And this is the special thing but this working group is organized by the medical doctors not by the network engineers and the WG's scope is the real medical matters.
UbuntuNet Alliance’s Joe Kimaili will present remotely from Uganda's renown Makerere University. According to Kitamura there is a strong collaborative partnership in between Uganda’s Makerere University and Japanese and university hospitals that have previously facilitated collaborative initiatives in orthopedics. Interested Ugandan researchers can enlist to participate in the Telemedicine Symposium by emailing info@ubuntunet.net