Workshop_March

=Design and Implementation of Mobile and Open Source Infrastructure for Telemedicine in Latin America= = ﻿ =

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There is an increasing need for scalable mobile health infrastructure, using Open Source across the widely distributed communities across Latin America who are now developing shared infrastructure, standards, training, and a regional agenda to meet these needs http://telemed.wikispaces.com/Links_Conferences_Sites The very rapid uptake of these technologies in the region provides an opportunity for research, training and other links with the Universities and companies who are shaping this.
 * Workshop Focus **

The Director of the telemedicine programme led from the Univ. Central de Venezuela [|www.telemed.wikispaces.com/AboutSOS] will present an overview of their work, and the kind of collaboration that they hope to achieve. [|SOS EDIMBURGO 2011b.pptx]. The workshop was intended to build more concretely on initial discussions, and define practical next steps, and opportunites for synergies. in the design and integration of mobile / Open Source infrastructure for telemedicine in remote or under-resourced areas.

a) collaboration on requirements already shared (See [|Requirements.docx] for an overview, See [|www.sanamobile.org] for examples) b) collaboration in terms of standards c) collaboration on low cost applications
 * Theme 1 : Designing scalable mobile and Open Source infrastructure for telemedicine in remote regions **

(a) leveraging social networks in the implementation of mobile applications - the Latin Amercian expereince (b) exploring barriers and opportunities for integration of mobile clips for training to the curriculum (c) researching barriers to / impact of ICT on social and and economic development
 * Theme 2 : Implementing mobile applications for telemedicine in remote/ under-resourced regions **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">To start the ball rolling we are submitting a short 4 page, first stage propsal to the EU Alfa programme for collaboration with Latin America on the design and implementation <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">of re-usable mobile resources [|AlfaIII_Draft Outline2.docx]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Project Proposals **