Digital Divide
What is digital divide? What is the impact on the society? What is Supercourse effort?
Digital Divide
The gap in:
Information communication technology The Internet use Income Age Gender Ethnicity Language Geography Family, company size
The gap between various:
Digital Divide
(%) 30
Interent users
Less than 5% of world population
23,5 % world population % internet users
26,3
25 20 15 10 5 0 4,7
0,04
USA
South Asia
Source: UN Human Development Report, 1999
Digital Divide
Among developed countries
0 20 40 60 55 54 51 38,5 27 PC penetration
Netherland 99' Australia 00' US 00'
Japan 00'
% of people having a PC Source: OECD, Digital Divide 2001
France 00'
Digital Divide
Among developed countries
0 20 40 60 50,1 41,5 38 19,1 12,1 Internet access
Denmark 00' US 00' Norway 99' Japan 00' France 00'
% of Internet users Source: OECD, Digital Divide 2001
Widening Digital Divide
1994 vs. 1997 in USA
50 40 30
21.5% gap 16.8% gap
US White US Black
Source: Burstin, Health Affairs 2000
20 10 0
% of Internet users
1994 1997
Digital Divide
Result:
Less access
Lack of information
Impact
Business Science Education
Slowing down of the society
Crossing Digital Divide
Alternative Internet access:
Cable, Satellite TV Mobile phone
Crossing Digital Divide
Mobile internet training unit
Supercourse – Crossing Digital Divide
Supercourse lectures
Readable with lower version of web browsers Small size
200-300kb per lecture
Mirroring CD-ROM
Supercourse – Crossing Digital Divide
Mirror sites: 32
Simply “a copy of Supercourse site”
Mirror update in December!!
Supercourse – Crossing Digital Divide
CD-Rom:
Sent to 4000 faculty in 105 countries
CD-Rom update in December!!
Quality Control
Filtering system
Development level Manufacturing level Utilization level
Quality assurance system
Online review
Statistical quality control
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
Utilization
Professional training:
Local health departments (US)
Training material Self-learning material Resource for program development
Utilization
e-Handbook:
Medical students
Quick manual for “Epidemiology”
Web-based or CD-Rom
Supercourse development
Rehabilitation Supercourse (29)
http://www.shrs.upmc.edu/supercourse/index.htm http://www.commed.hku.hk/super.course/index.htm http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/cdcfront.htm
Behavioral Sciences Supercourse (16)
CDC Prevention Lecture Series (30)
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.uoehu.ac.jp/supercourse/index.htm
Supercourse development
Hokkaido University
Health, Environment, and Sustainable Health Supercourse
http://www.med.hokudai.ac.jp/~seniorw/supercourses.html
Dokkyo University
Global Pathology Supercourse
http://www.dokkyomed.ac.jp/dep-k/clipath/WASP-Glo.html
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) programs
Future plans
CD distribution Mirroring Satellite-based distribution
Egypt
IMIA WG9, WG1 collaboration Connecting BMJ, Lancet and Supercourse Citation system Customization system Evaluation model
Further collaboration
Lecture sharing CD distribution Mirroring Supercourse development in other area Collaborative research Lecture translation Business model development
How to join?
Supercourse website:
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/assi st/join.htm
Email contact:
EunRyoung Sa eunsa@pitt.edu Akira Sekikawa akira@pitt.edu Ron LaPorte ronlaporte@aol.com
GHNet-Supercourse Working Group
Ronald E. LaPorte Akira Sekikawa EunRyoung Sa Fan Zhou Faina Linkov Mita Lovalekar Beatriz Rico Verdin Eugene Shubnikov Deborah Aaron Thomas Songer
Ron
Akira EunRyoung
Faina Mita
Eugene Deb
Beatriz Fan
Tom