View by clicking on screen. Finalist Yeoman Award

This CD documents a 5 month online, interactive training program delivered to remote Australian Indigenous health workers and community groups via email, website, webcam and video conferencing.

Challenges:

• Remote communities lack resources, professional development and empowerment.
• High rate of death and hospital re-admittance.
• Diversity of learner backgrounds (culture, prior knowledge, skills, and community conditions).

Achievments

• IT competency and uptake of previously unused technology.
• Transfer of knowledge and establishing new community services.
• Networking and mentoring between remote communities.
• Re-purposed for cross-cultural training of teachers and housing officers.

Learning covered mangement of spinal injury; community health services and IT infrastructure and its' use.

Supported by LifeTec Qld and Networking the Nation in 2001/2002.

Dr G.S. Hooper, Information Environments Program, University of Queensland

"In my view Hewitson's work provides a model for the application of the new information and communications technologies to issues of genuine community concern...(the) approach to interactivity and community building easily extends to education...health...and technology."