1. Turning the Alley of Information Exchange in Developing Countries to the Super Highway1

2. This lecture is dedicated on behalf of Supercourse Team to people around the world who are entitled to receive updated quality health services.
By: Ali Ardalan, Kourosh Holakouie Naeini, Ali Eghtesadi, Eugene Shubnikov, Eric Noji, Faina Linkov, Sunita Dodani, Rashid Chotani & Ronald E LaPorte 2

3. Information exchange status in developing countries
Equally benefited by Information sharing?
Permanent research communications?
Changing with available new information
technologies?
ِِDifficulties of developing countries to send &
receive of information? 3

4. A Highway or an Alley of Information Sending & Receiving?
Information exchange status in developing countries
A Highway or an Alley of Information Sending & Receiving? 4

5. Sending: a Highway or an Alley?
Information exchange status in developing countries
Sending: a Highway or an Alley?
Almost 25% of the world's scientists live in
developing countries.
These scientists publish less than 3% of the
world's papers
Iran publishes 76 medical journals, of which 6
are in English 5

6. Sending: a Highway or an Alley?
Information exchange status in developing countries
Sending: a Highway or an Alley?
Publication involves two major components,
submission and, the judgment
Both the submission rate and acceptance rate
for developing countries are considerably
lower than what is expected. 6

7. Receiving: a Highway or an Alley?
Information exchange status in developing countries
Receiving: a Highway or an Alley?
Our training in developing countries will be outdated in
short time
The high speed of science generation in the world
Ever changing health pattern in the communities with a
lot of unanswered questions
Not enough access to high cost publications, pioneer
scientists, and insufficient local experts 7

8. Receiving: a Highway or an Alley?
Information exchange status in developing countries
Receiving: a Highway or an Alley?
Subscribing to the Science costs $295/year & for the
Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, and the BMJ
over $400
In many developing countries, the per capita income is
$300
A medical library in the US subscribes to about 3000
journals, whereas the Nairobi Medical School Library,
receives only 20 journals. 8

9. Receiving: a Highway or an Alley?
Information exchange status in developing countries
Receiving: a Highway or an Alley?
Our populations have the right to be treated based on up
to date knowledge of health practice and management.
Otherwise what do you think about the portion of
morbidity and mortality, which we would be responsible
for? “People being killed by their health experts!!” 9

10. In this lecture we try to introduce the
Objective:
In this lecture we try to introduce the
applications of a health e-learning
technique, Supercourse, for improving
mutual, updated, information exchange
between developed and developing
countries. 10

11. What is Supercourse? Funded by NLM & NIH
Managed by a team of public health graduates based in
Pittsburgh and a webmaster who lives in Siberia!
Freely available online library of about 1900 online
PowerPoint lectures
Some lectures are multilingual in 14 languages
Written by members of Global Health Network (GHN) of 15,000 scientists including six Nobel Prize winners 11

12. What is Supercourse? Distribution of 7500 CD in 118 countries and to
44 mirror sites world wide
Distribution of 7500 CD in 118 countries and to
ask everybody to copy it and spread around
The latest edition of the CD contains over 1000
Epidemiology lectures 12

13. What is the idea of Supercourse? It emerged as the rapidly developing
world of information and technology
started to dominate the life
The old formats of information recording
and sharing were no longer meeting the
demands of the modern world 13

14. Simple concept of Supercourse: “To improve the teaching of epidemiology, global health and the Internet in medical, veterinary, nursing schools one can improve the lectures” 14

15. How Supercourse is being presented?
Hypertext Comic Book to get rid of the boring
traditional presentations
Web-based icon-driven format lectures with
PowerPoint, graphic presentation and text
Teachers and students can go deep through
hyperlinks 15

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20. How Supercourse works? 20

21. Supercourse teaches the teachers
How Supercourse works?
Supercourse teaches the teachers
Like a teaching software package for the
teachers of students
It offers teachers an updated source of
information, just a click away
Teachers can easily bring it to the class and
share it 21

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23. Revolutionizes the research communications
How Supercourse works?
Revolutionizes the research communications
Redesign the mode of information transfer
Benefiting from all features of multimedia
communication compared with electronic
journals
Practically summoning all health scientists to
the electronic commons to share the harvest of
knowledge 23

24. Nothing is impossible in the Supercourse cyberspace
How Supercourse works?
Nothing is impossible in the Supercourse cyberspace
Death of Distance
Permit scientist and lecturers
to “chat” in real time, to
present lectures in classes
thousands of miles away 24

25. Supercourse tackles the information deficiency
How Supercourse works?
Supercourse tackles the information deficiency
Lack of health information can lead to a
massive tragedy
Big concerns: “To tackle the Information
deficiency in developing countries”
The greatest challenge :“Reaching the last mile"
People as “Microinformation brokers” 25

26. How Supercourse works?
Supercourse improves the quality of health services faster than journals
Just in time feedback from the world renowned
scientists
To improve the quality of health services
regarding the issue of time and efficiency
Fairer democracy on productivity and health
information dissemination 26

27. Supercourse freely benefits all
How Supercourse works?
Supercourse freely benefits all
The same concept of “Freeware” or “Open
source software”
Free user friendly library
Unlimited access to information
Free of charge for every body with every level of knowledge and every level of financial capability world wide 27

28. Supercourse: not only a distance education
How Supercourse works?
Supercourse: not only a distance education
Prominent difference with distance learning:
Breaking down the barriers between
students & teachers
Not a substitute for existing educational
model but a teaching-support system that
provides a wide range of high level
lectures by experts in every field 28

29. Go faster than the SARS virus goes and Bam earthquake kills more
How Supercourse works?
Go faster than the SARS virus goes and Bam earthquake kills more
JIT lectures: Fantastic and special applications
Blossoming when a new event happens around
the world
Enormous potential to reduce fear and save lives
Step by step live education that how a disease
appeared, how investigated and how controlled 29

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34. Supercourse & the original philosophy of Olympic
How Supercourse works?
Supercourse & the original philosophy of Olympic
Encouraging people to be physically active and healthy
Not merely competition of a few professional athletes
To integrate the Olympic ideas plus the knowledge of the
science of physical activity and health 34

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38. Providing an opportunity to contact Olympic Committee
around the world to make them more physically active and bring the Olympic idea and knowledge to the community! 38

39. Urgent need of information sharing emphasized
Conclusion:
Urgent need of information sharing emphasized
by the ever changing world of science
Developing countries benefits from modern
information technology
Supercourse greatly benefited the developed
countries too
Supercourse ability to turn the alley of
information exchange to the Super highway 39

40. Finally, the main winner of Olympic competition between scientists and speed of information explosion should be people around the world. 40

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