Digital Divide

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Digital Divide

• What is digital divide?
• What is the impact on the society?
• What is Supercourse effort?

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Digital Divide

• The gap in
• Information communication technology
• The Internet use
• The gap between various
• Income
• Age
• Gender
• Ethnicity
• Language
• Geography
• Family, company size

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Digital Divide

• Interent users
• Less than 5 of world population

Source UN Human Development Report, 1999
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Digital Divide

• Among developed countries

of people having a PC
Source OECD, Digital Divide 2001
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Digital Divide

• Among developed countries

of Internet users
Source OECD, Digital Divide 2001
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Widening Digital Divide

• 1994 vs. 1997 in USA

21.5 gap
16.8 gap
Source Burstin, Health Affairs 2000
of Internet users
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Digital Divide

• Result
• Less access
• Lack of information
• Impact
• Business
• Science
• Education
• Slowing down of the society

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Crossing Digital Divide

• Alternative Internet access
• Cable, Satellite
• TV
• Mobile phone

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Crossing Digital Divide

• Mobile internet training unit

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Supercourse Crossing Digital Divide

• Supercourse lectures
• Readable with lower version of web browsers
• Small size
• 200-300kb per lecture
• Mirroring
• CD-ROM

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Supercourse Crossing Digital Divide

• Mirror sites 32
• Simply a copy of Supercourse site
• Mirror update in December!!

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Supercourse Crossing Digital Divide

• CD-Rom
• Sent to 4000 faculty in 105 countries
• CD-Rom update in December!!

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Quality Control

• Filtering system
• Development level
• Manufacturing level
• Utilization level
• Quality assurance system
• Online review
• Statistical quality control

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Utilization

• Classroom teaching
• Faculty
• School of Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry,
  Veterinary, Public Health
• Course reference / reading material
• Customized lecturing
• Modification, tailoring
• Web-based or CD-Rom

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Utilization

• Professional training
• Local health departments (US)
• Training material
• Self-learning material
• Resource for program development

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Utilization

• e-Handbook
• Medical students
• Quick manual for Epidemiology
• Web-based or CD-Rom

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Supercourse development

• Rehabilitation Supercourse (29)
• http//www.shrs.upmc.edu/supercourse/index.htm
• Behavioral Sciences Supercourse (16)
• http//www.commed.hku.hk/super.course/index.htm
• CDC Prevention Lecture Series (30)
• http//www.pitt.edu/super1/cdcfront.htm

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Supercourse development

• Jikei University Medical School
• Clinical Epidemiology course
• Evaluation trial
• http//www.jikei.ac.jp
• University of Occupational Environmental Health
• Post graduate education
• Global Health Disaster Network
• http//envepi.med.uoeh-u.ac.jp/supercourse/index.h
  tm

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Supercourse development

• Hokkaido University
• Health, Environment, and Sustainable Health
  Supercourse
• http//www.med.hokudai.ac.jp/senior-w/supercourse
  s.html
• Dokkyo University
• Global Pathology Supercourse
• http//www.dokkyomed.ac.jp/dep-k/cli-path/WASP-Glo
  .html
• Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
  programs

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Future plans

• CD distribution
• Mirroring
• Satellite-based distribution
• Egypt
• IMIA WG9, WG1 collaboration
• Connecting BMJ, Lancet and Supercourse
• Citation system
• Customization system
• Evaluation model

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Further collaboration

• Lecture sharing
• CD distribution
• Mirroring
• Supercourse development in other area
• Collaborative research
• Lecture translation
• Business model development

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How to join?

• Supercourse website
• http//www.pitt.edu/super1/assist/join.htm
• Email contact
• EunRyoung Sa eunsa_at_pitt.edu
• Akira Sekikawa akira_at_pitt.edu
• Ron LaPorte ronlaporte_at_aol.com

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GHNet-SupercourseWorking Group

• Ronald E. LaPorte
• Akira Sekikawa
• EunRyoung Sa
• Fan Zhou
• Faina Linkov
• Mita Lovalekar
• Beatriz Rico Verdin
• Eugene Shubnikov
• Deborah Aaron
• Thomas Songer