Message-ID: <150AA1A6943@earwig.ed.ac.cowan.edu.au> Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 09:10:29 GMT+0800 From: Dr John Williams <mailto:PWILLIAM@EARWIG.ED.AC.COWAN.EDU.AU> Subject: Re: Telemedicine To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
> Recently there was a thread on the issue of using "The Internet" in Africa
> to provide improved health care in rural areas via telemedicine.
> Eberhard, in his usual abrupt "you don't know squat about what it's REALLY
> like in Africa" style, pronounced that such projects don't work, can't
> work, and "aren't even being done in the US".
Together, Arizona and New Mexico are about > the same size as Botswana.
>
This may in fact be one of the few valid parallels between Arizona, New Mexico and Botswana. At times an abrupt response is needed to counteract unworkable notions of technology transfer. Dr P John Williams Maths Science and Technology Education Edith Cowan University Bradford Street Mt Lawley 6050 Australia ph 61 9 370 6847 fax 61 9 370 2910 email mailto:p.j.williams@cowan.edu.au