I have a few questions:
1. How will you determine who is really a midwife and who is just saying they are in order to get a computer?
2. How will you train midwives to use computers, especially if many of them are not literate?
3. How will you distribute the laptops to very remote areas?
4. How will you resolve tech problems should they occur?
Also, will the goal be to train new midwives using these computers? What capacity do they have to show videos and become interactive tools for learning?
Thank you very much for the wonderful questions. Sorry for the delay. I am currently in Khartoum looking for possibilities for this project and other and I am checking my emails only intermitently. I have tried to provide a response to each of your questions below.
1. Ahfad University along with the Ministry of Health has a network of midwives (who have taken 8 months long courses in midwifery). These midwives are certified. Only certified midwives will be eligible program will begin with these midwives.
2.One module (curricula) of this program will focus on literacy. However, as pointed out in my proposal we have already established the fact that most if not all midwives in these area are literate (at least they can read and write).
3. Ahfad University already has a family attachment program where by students are sent to clinics and health centers in remote areas. These assignments are accomplished in a coordinated partnership between Ahfad University and these health facilities. The same partnership will be used to identify midwives in rural areas and distribute the laptops.
4.In this plan there are two approaches that are meant to deal with technological issues. All the computers can be accessed remotely and technological problems can be solved via remote access. Secondly the plan is to have 2 to 3 reserve computers at the health facilities that can be used by midwives who have problems with their laptop. Currently Ahfad University has a staff member in the department of management and information science who in collaboration with UNICIEF is working in the implementation phase of the “one child per laptop” project. He along with other members of the staff in the information technology program will be the main contacts for issues related to tech problems. In the remote areas personnel at the health facilities will address the technical problems.
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This is an interesting idea Zelalem.
I have a few questions:
1. How will you determine who is really a midwife and who is just saying they are in order to get a computer?
2. How will you train midwives to use computers, especially if many of them are not literate?
3. How will you distribute the laptops to very remote areas?
4. How will you resolve tech problems should they occur?
Also, will the goal be to train new midwives using these computers? What capacity do they have to show videos and become interactive tools for learning?
Thanks!
Claire
Ashoka
Thank you very much for the wonderful questions. Sorry for the delay. I am currently in Khartoum looking for possibilities for this project and other and I am checking my emails only intermitently. I have tried to provide a response to each of your questions below.
1. Ahfad University along with the Ministry of Health has a network of midwives (who have taken 8 months long courses in midwifery). These midwives are certified. Only certified midwives will be eligible program will begin with these midwives.
2.One module (curricula) of this program will focus on literacy. However, as pointed out in my proposal we have already established the fact that most if not all midwives in these area are literate (at least they can read and write).
3. Ahfad University already has a family attachment program where by students are sent to clinics and health centers in remote areas. These assignments are accomplished in a coordinated partnership between Ahfad University and these health facilities. The same partnership will be used to identify midwives in rural areas and distribute the laptops.
4.In this plan there are two approaches that are meant to deal with technological issues. All the computers can be accessed remotely and technological problems can be solved via remote access. Secondly the plan is to have 2 to 3 reserve computers at the health facilities that can be used by midwives who have problems with their laptop. Currently Ahfad University has a staff member in the department of management and information science who in collaboration with UNICIEF is working in the implementation phase of the “one child per laptop” project. He along with other members of the staff in the information technology program will be the main contacts for issues related to tech problems. In the remote areas personnel at the health facilities will address the technical problems.
Thanks again,
Zelalem
Thanks for answering those questions. Be sure to include your answers in your entry.
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