Telecommunications in Cuba - Telecommunications Companies of Cuba, Infomed, Etecsa, Telephone Numbers in Cuba, .Cu (Paperback)

Chapters: Telecommunications Companies of Cuba, Infomed, Etecsa, Telephone Numbers in Cuba, .Cu. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Infomed is the Cuban Health Portal and the network of people and institutions that share the purpose of facilitating the access to the health information in Cuba. Infomed staff gather in the Infomed lobby on the day of the world-wide challenge for health.Infomed started in 1992 as a project to interconnect the information centers and the medical libraries in Cuba, and it is today a network with national reach. The project has received awards and international recognition, in particular the Stockholm Challenge Award in 2002. It is a network of people and institutions that share the purpose of facilitating access to information and knowledge to improve the health of the Cuban people and other people of the World, by intensive and creative use of the information and communication technologies. It is interesting that the first international steps of this network were participating in a project of the Pan-American Health Organization and the National Library of Medicine of the USA to access MEDLINE with the help of e-mail through the project BITNIS. The network started as an initiative of the Medical Sciences Information National Center, that was founded in 1965 to take care of the information needs of doctors and other health workers. A characteristic of the project has been the use of the information and communication technologies with a social vision and with the developments of local capabilities. It was the first national network in utilizing the GNU/Linux operating system in all its servers for the development of national content and adequate services to its health system. Since 1994 it has placed the complete texts...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3898645