Support health professionals in isolation, through continuous distance medical education
Main beneficiary countries:Mali - Niger - Burkina Faso - Cameroon - Congo - Brazzaville - Côte d’Ivoire - Madagascar - Senegal - Guinea - Mauritania
Centre d'Expertise et de Recherche en Télémédecine et E-Santé
The Center of Expertise and Research in Telemedicine and E-Health (CERTES) is a private company under Malian law that has been working to optimize the potential of ICT in the health sector for the past dozen years in Mali, Africa and the world. The experience of ICT solutions applied to health, forged on proven competences over the last decade, has allowed CERTES to assert a leading status in French-speaking Africa in different fields: telemedical expertise, telemedical teaching, and the development and adaptation of Open Source tools for health and hospital information systems.
Sector: Health: Healthcare professionals and structures
Country of origin: Mali
Healthcare themes targeted
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Lack of continuous education for health professionals due to their isolation.
Easy implementation: low bandwidth, technology accessible to all, lower cost, free access to a large database of archived courses.
Dudal enables the production and distribution of courses on a low-bandwidth line and with easily accessible hardware (computer, webcam and microphone). Listeners can ask the speaker questions via an interactive forum. Courses and discussions are archived and can be freely reviewed. Technically, this concerns the use of free software for converting an OpenOffice or PowerPoint presentation into HTML documents, which has the ability to operate on a low-speed network and to easily reconnect in case of interruption.
Health professional training - Information, education and communication for behaviour change (IEC)
1000 Number of beneficiaries since launch
250 Number of users per Month
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auto-evaluated or evaluated by a related organization
Health: Healthcare professionals and structures
Health: Healthcare professionals and structures
Academic entities: Universities, research laboratories, etc.
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