MaghrebMed: a Portal Access to Information on Health Issues

MaghrebMed - Tunisia
Success Strategy: MaghrebMed was created as a driver for
promoting both health and ICTs, and in particular for
taking advantage of endless opportunities that internet
provides for dissemination health information and forge
new patterns of health behaviour and health best
practices. The platform is based on a bunch of thematic
websites addressing professionals from the domain as well
as the wide public. Human and veterinary health as well as
health care are considered as a wide life field and various
related aspects, such as history, jurisdiction and
deontology are documented and discussed.
The concept of the website is to be a portal providing
access to a considerable knowledge resources as well as to
specific interests & activities forums opening an opportunity for building virtual
communities. The increased, facilitated and interactive access to information on
health, health facilities and related activities is expected to contribute to the
improvement of the health condition of people in the region over the long term.
Partners: A very large number of institutions, association and companies form the
field of health
Awards: Winner of the national contest Best Digital Content and Applications Tunisia 2005, Category e-Health Nominee for the WSIS-Award 2005, Category
e-Health
Source: the MaghrebMed website and the WSIS Stocktaking database
WSIS STOCKTAKING & PARTNERSHIPS : ACTIVITY DETAILS
Project ID:
1124185094
Entity:
Tunisia - Promed
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Activity:
MaghrebMed
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Activity
Maghrebmed a été crée dans le but de promouvoir les TIC en matière de santé et
description:
médecine dans les pays du Maghreb, visant aussi bien les professionnels de la
santé qu’un plus vaste public. Le projet est un grand carrefour offrant l’accès à la
fois à un immense gisement de connaissances et à des salons virtuels par
domaines d’activités, concrétisant ainsi le concept de communautés virtuelles.
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Entity from:
Africa - Tunisia
Geographical coverage of the activity:
Regional - Africa
WSIS action lines related to this activity:
Theme 1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
Theme 3. Access to information and knowledge
Theme 7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life
Theme 12. Achieving WSIS targets (PoA, Section B)
Related MDGs:
MDG 8. Develop a global partnership for development
Activity type: Project
Time scale: Ongoing
Partners: Un très grand nombre d'institutions, associations et entreprises dans le domaine de la
santé
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