TY - GEN
T1 - Enhancing communications and connectivity in Africa
T2 - 10th World Congress on Medical Informatics, MEDINFO 2001
AU - Siegel, Elliot R.
AU - Royall, Julia
AU - Bennett, Mark
PY - 2001/1/1
Y1 - 2001/1/1
N2 - The U.S. National Library of Medicine, working in concert with the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM), has developed and implemented a unique organizational and technical strategy to connect malaria research sites to the Internet for purposes of facilitating North-South scientific communications and access to electronic information resources on the Web. The model employs microwave and VSAT technologies, and shares bandwidth and costs among participating malaria research sites and their respective research funders in Mali, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania and other sub-Saharan locations affiliated with MIM. The concept of institutional partnership is an essential element of this information technology capacity building effort, which may find applicability in other developing regions of the world with similar communications and research networking needs and capabilities.
AB - The U.S. National Library of Medicine, working in concert with the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM), has developed and implemented a unique organizational and technical strategy to connect malaria research sites to the Internet for purposes of facilitating North-South scientific communications and access to electronic information resources on the Web. The model employs microwave and VSAT technologies, and shares bandwidth and costs among participating malaria research sites and their respective research funders in Mali, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania and other sub-Saharan locations affiliated with MIM. The concept of institutional partnership is an essential element of this information technology capacity building effort, which may find applicability in other developing regions of the world with similar communications and research networking needs and capabilities.
KW - Africa South of the Sahara
KW - Computer Communication Networks
KW - International Cooperation
KW - Medical Informatics
KW - NLM
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U2 - 10.3233/978-1-60750-928-8-48
DO - 10.3233/978-1-60750-928-8-48
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84888028263
SN - 1586031945
SN - 9781586031947
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 48
EP - 52
BT - MEDINFO 2001 - Proceedings of the 10th World Congress on Medical Informatics
PB - IOS Press
Y2 - 2 September 2005 through 5 September 2005
ER -