[Foundation-l] RAFT

[Anthere]

Hello

Last week, I participated in a forum in Geneva, focused on "toward 
global access to health", in a session dedicated to medical on-line 
information. One of the organiser of this forum is involved in a project 
called RAFT. The core activity of the RAFT is the webcasting of 
interactive medical courses. They put the emphasis on knowledge sharing 
across care professionals, usually in the form of presentations and 
dialogs between experts in different countries. The technology for the 
webcasting works with a slow (25 kbits/sec) Internet Connexion.

They feature several activities. But a strong emphasis is put on the 
development of capacities for the creation, maintenance and publication 
of quality medical didactic content. More is available on 
http://raft.hcuge.ch

After discussion with them, it seems that two domains should be 
developed. Amongst those the creation of content...

People in charge know our project, and invited us purposefully to the 
forum to make contact. After discussion, we decided to meet for a longer 
time and with more people involved to discuss potential paths for 
collaboration. It so happens that I'll be again in Geneva, in transit, 
next week, so I will take this opportunity to meet them again.

I'll be very happy that those of you who are healthcare professionals 
have a look at the project. It is limited to french speaking countries 
(with a country in focus, Mali), but many documents are translated due 
to the international implications. I find such projects absolutely 
fascinating. I doubt very much the very specialised content could ever 
be produced on our projects (likely, wikibooks), but if it is produced 
under a free licence, we might host it. Besides, they could make use of 
our general content to support their own content. Last, this project 
imply the creation of "internet spot", with tech support. It could be 
possible to stimulate/organisation participation to Wikipedia using this 
frame.

This was just the 10 minutes to inform you of stuff being discussed. 
More later.

Ant