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HEALTH INFORMATION SERVICE ON WEB AND INTERNET Satellife is a global non-profit public health organization, which focuses its attention on the developing world.In several countries where Internet service has been unaffordable or unavailable, HealthNet has functioned as a local e-mail service provider. Satellife's in-country partners, including medical libraries, NGOs, and other health-related institutions, have worked to create affordable e-mail networks for the local health community. In other countries, the arrival of reasonably priced Internet service has made it possible for HealthNet users to migrate to a commercial solution for their e-mail service. In areas where HealthNet has not yet achieved independence, or where commercial service is not a viable option, Satellife continues to provide or facilitate access to affordable e-mail service. HealthNet e-mail users also have access to a
wide range of Information Services, including electronic medical
and health publications, electronic discussion groups, and a
service called GetWeb that provides access to information on
the Web in text form via e-mail. SATELLIFE now makes these services
available free of charge to all qualified health professionals
in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, regardless of how they obtain
e-mail service. HealthNet News and HealthNet News-AIDS are two
newsletters published by Satellife. These newsletters contain
current peer-reviewed abstracts and summaries from prominent
journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, Pediatrics,
The Lancet, The British Medical Journal, Clinical Infectious
Diseases, Tropical Doctor, The American Journal of Public Health
and more. For more information about Satellife's information
services write to autoinfo@usa.healthnet.org for an automatic
response, or visit www.healthnet.org. For details on how to subscribe
write to hnet@usa.healthnet.org.
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Africam.co.za.
The site is streaming video of polar bears in their natural environment.
AFRICA'S DIGITAL RESOURCES The Project for Information Access and Connectivity (PIAC) is sponsored by the Ford and Rockefeller foundations. PIAC was established in 1997 to work with grantees and program officers of both foundations on issues pertaining to connectivity, information access, and the dissemination of African information. In August 1998, PIAC published Wired for Information: Putting the Internet to Good Use in Africa. A second, revised edition was published in June 2000. Wired provides guidelines for including Internet and information support in project budgets, guidelines for evaluating information resources on the Net, and tips on locating relevant information resources in a variety of disciplines. Print copies are available by writing to PIAC. You can find an online version of Wired, with updates, on the PIAC home page by going to http://www.piac.org/wired/ It is clear to anyone who has conducted CD-ROM or Internet searches that it s hard to locate information about Africa and its even more difficult to find information coming from Africa. African scholars carry out research, good literature is published, the culture is vibrant. But African content is not disseminated as widely as it should be. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that it is almost impossible to identify what's out there and where to find it." Information and communication technologies (ICT) can make Africa more visible, but only if we can find what were looking for. Africa Goes Digital is rooted in my desire to seek out selected African resources in digital format. A few words about structure. I chose subjects that are representative of the organizations with which I work; that was the easy part. Deciding how to categorize the home pages described in Africa Goes Digital was not as simple. In some instances, it was an arbitrary decisionafter all, does the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) belong in culture or in media? Turn to chapter ten to find out. In any case, Africa Goes Digital is still rather short. Why not skim the whole volume? If you want to find more about
this selection of African Web sites, go to: Africa on the Internet:
an Annotated Guide to African Web Sites Cybercafes.com: Internet cyber cafes guide all over
the world Cybercafes in Africa: This site contains a database
of 4181 internet cafes in 148 countries. You can search by city
or country name for a list of cafes found in that location, or
click on the map for quick access to regional listings. Countries from Africa present in the database:
Why are there more cybercafes
in Algeria than any of the other countries?
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