Web conference, Wed 13 Oct

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Vijay

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Dear HIFA2015 colleagues,

Greetings from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso!!! We have just started the 12th

biennial Congress of AHILA, the Association for Health Information and Libraries

in Africa...

This is a special message to all HIFA2015 and AHILA members who are *not* in

Ouagadougou! We would like to invite you to join us by web conference on

Wednesday 13 October for 1 hour, starting at 12 noon local time. All you need is

a computer with an internet connection, microphone and speakers - ideally, we

recommend you to use a headset.

We are very grateful to HIFA2015 member Professor Cook and colleagues at

the University of Iowa (USA) for their in-kind support by providing

complimentary web conferencing facilities for us.

We shall meet on the internet in the *HIFA2015 Virtual Room*. This is accessible

to you now! We strongly recommend you enter the HIFA2015 Virtual Room now to

ensure that you are ready to participate actively in the conference.

Here is what you need to do to prepare for the web conference:

1. Go to:

https://globalcampus.uiowa.edu/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1262299208094

2. Type in the two fields marked with an asterisk *

- your email address

- your name and country

(there is no need for a password)

For example:

vilanculosf@...

Flatiel Vilanculos (Mozambique)

3. Press 'Enter'. Say 'Yes' to allow your computer to download the Elluminate

software. This will take only a minute or two. For most people, there will be no

problem to download the software. If your system firewall does not allow this,

ask your IT administrator for help.

4. When the software is downloaded a box will appear to invite you to Run or

Cancel. Click 'Run' and you will be taken straight to the HIFA2015 Virtual Room.

5. When you are in the HIFA2015 Virtual Room, go to Tools - - Audio -

- Audio SetUp.Wizard. Follow the instructions to make sure that your microphone

and headphone/loudspeakers are functioning OK and at a comfortable volume.

When you have done this, you're ready! If you have any problems, consult the

Elluminate website: www.elluminate.com

6. WEDNESDAY 13TH OCTOBER, 12 NOON LOCAL TIME

12 NOON Ouagadougou

1 PM London

3 PM Nairobi

7. Please arrive 10 minutes before the start of the web conference.

8. During the web conference, only one person can speak at one time.

If you would like to speak, then you can indicate this by clicking on

the square button half-way down on the left side of the screen (the

button contains a hand and a green arrow). This will indicate to the

chair (Neil Pakenham-Walsh) that you want to speak, and he will give

you the 'virtual microphone' next. When you hear that it is your turn

to speak, click on the microphone icon (bottom left of screen). When

you are finished, click it again to turn it off so that the next

person can use it.

9. The speakers will include:

Flatiel Vilanculos (Secretary-General, AHILA)

Pascal Mouhouelo (Reference Librarian, WHO AFRO)

Isabelle Wachsmuth-Huguet (Evidence for Informed Policy-Making

Network, WHO Geneva)

Neil Pakenham-Walsh (Coordinator, HIFA2015)

... and *YOU*!

Each speaker will spend a few minutes to describe current status and

future plans for HIFA2015, AHILA and WHO AFRO. We shall report on

highlights of the AHILA Congress to date, including the launch of

HIFA-EVIPNet-French - the new forum to promote evidence-informed

policy making for health in French-speaking countries in Africa.

10. We look forward to your participation!!!

Best wishes,

Neil Pakenham-Walsh (Coordinator, HIFA2015)

Flatiel Vilanculos (Secretary-General, AHILA)

Pascal Mouhouelo (Reference Librarian, WHO AFRO)

Isabelle Wachsmuth-Huguet (Evidence for Informed Policy-Making

Network, WHO Geneva)

HIFA2015 profile: Flatiel Vilanculos is Documentation Officer for WHO

Mozambique. He is also Secretary General of AHILA (Association for

Health Information and Libraries in Africa). vilanculosf AT mz.afro.who.int

HIFA2015 profile: Pascal Mouhouelo is WHO/AFRO Information

Dissemination Librarian, where he does reference collection

development, library instruction, and outreach field work to train

WHO staff and health care professionals in both urban and rural

settings. Pascal is also a trainer for biomedical researchers using

the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI), which

offers free or very low cost online access to the major journals in

biomedical not-for-profit institutions in developing countries. He is

also the lead author of a PLOS Medicine 2006 article " Where There Is

No Internet: Delivering Health Information via the Blue Trunk

Libraries. " which describes a practical way to address the local

absence of internet and contemporary medical textbooks in many

African health care settings. mouhouelop@...

HIFA2015 profile: Isabelle Wachsmuth-Huguet is manager of the EVIPNet

portal. EVIPNet (Evidence-Informed Policy Network : www.evipnet.org)

is a WHO initiative that encourages policy-makers in low and

middle-income countries to use evidence generated by relevant

research. It is a collaborative and social network of researchers,

policy makers and civil society to facilitate the use of high quality

research evidence, hugueti@...

HIFA2015 profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is the coordinator of the

HIFA2015 campaign and co-director of the Global Healthcare

Information Network. He started his career as a hospital doctor in

the UK, and has clinical experience in rural Ecuador and Peru. For

the last 20 years he has been committed to improving the availability

of healthcare information for health workers in developing countries.

He has worked with the World Health Organization, the Wellcome Trust,

Medicine Digest and INASP (International Network for the Availability

of Scientific Publications). www.hifa2015.org neil.pakenham-walsh AT

ghi-net.org