Projects
WiRED works directly with local people to set up two main types of information centers:
Medical Information Centers (MICs) connect doctors and other healthcare professionals to current electronic medical information and to doctors and nurses who can provide instant consultations. Often located in hospitals or clinics, these centers supply:
- Computers, Internet access, cameras for teleconferencing, and other technology
- Medical curricula combined with the latest technologies
- Collaboration with well-trained doctors in developed countries, including lectures, workshops, and clinical assessments
Community Health Information Centers (CHICs) provide people at the grassroots level—birth attendants, students, peer educators, traditional healers, disabled—with interactive computer-based tutorials and study material. In Africa, WiRED created a program to deliver interactive educational lessons in accessible formats. In some remote areas like Kisumu, Kenya, teenagers carry WiRED's battery-operated and programmed Pack 'N Go computers to isolated communities. Over a million Kenyans have seen and heard HIV/AIDS prevention messages in remote locations from WiRED’s programs. In addition to its MICs and CHICs, WiRED has used technology to connect people in other ways. For example, children seeking cancer treatment away from home have used WiRED’s “video visits” to talk to their families.
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