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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at cila.comminitcila.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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Telemedicine project - Brazil

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The Telemedicine project, developed by CERTI Foundation, is intended to evaluate technical and operational aspects of the implementation of a broadband application using ADSL modens to transmit digital image, video and audio over the Internet. CERTI (Reference Centers for Technology Innovation) Foundation is a privite non-profit research organisation dedicated to technological innovation for societal purposes. They are "pursuing an agenda to help the country to play a pivotal role on [development/technological] issues concerning the growing impact of ICTs on society."
Communication Strategies
This project includes two main applications. The first is a Diagnosis Radiological Station, that consists of a software to support the diagnostic using of radiological images from any computer that has access to a Medical Image Database, via DICOM standard. This software allows remote access to radiological images of a hospital. The other application is the Virtual Diagnosis Room, a software that can be used with the Diagnosis Radiological Station to let many physicians in different places see and analyze the same image set, interact with the images, and to share a report editor in a chat mode and common audio channel. The radiologists can discuss their ideas and opinions about difficult cases and also explain the diagnostic and recommend procedures to the physician that requested the exam.
Development Issues
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Key Points
There are many benefits that can be achieved by this project: the cost reduction for using images and lessening x-ray printing, optimization of the diagnosis process with few radiologists working in a central diagnosis, decreasing the number of trips of the radiologists, and providing better medical attention in small towns that could not afford to have a specialist as a local resident.
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PDF documents about CERTI provided by Paulo de Miranda 10/01/01.