[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 11:56 on 03/12/98
about "RE: Home networks":
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replying to a posting saying
>> If we dont do something soon in terms of
>> locality learning sets, I fear that small inner city UNCOMPUTERISED
>> practices in this region are going to remain that way.
It looks as if the latest HSC on implementation of GPNet and so on
is presaging a free upgrade to RFA4 Plus for those practices -
assuming it doesn't apply only to already computerised practices...
which would be odd.
Good move.
Trefor said
>The problem with the NHS information superhighway is that it will only
be of
>use to those that can use it. The uncomputerised will
>take years to begin to get any benefit. The computer illiterate, even
if they
>have a terminal on theri desks do not have the time at
>the moment to learn.
So the task, as I see it, is to clear time for them to learn.
Nobody can make them learn, but anybody can clear them some time,
principally by ceasing to waste it.
I don't like the "Information Superhighway". It summons up a
dangerous road, which you have to be well up to speed to even venture
to join, where access is only by the approved ramps, carryng
truckloads of data at vast speeds from one place to another which
nobody watching can use.
I prefer the "Electronic Town Hall" which Ross Perrot publicised.
One goes to it to do business, or to find something out. It
contains meetings, notice boards, holds records as well as working
documents, can accomodate people who meet casually, formally,
publicly or secretly.
We are being offered a road when we actually need the place you go
when you have parked.
>There is also a lack of suitable teachers. Only about
>half of the tutors and course organisers in North Trent
>have the skills to use the net effectively according to the
preliminary
>results f a survey I have just done.
>
>Who is going to train them all and with what resources, financial and
human?
Amateurs like us.
The model of IM&T for the NHS, Primary Care at least, and probably
all clincial areas, needs to be more that of the peer support
network which Linux users run so well on, than the MS Certified
engineers and Novel CNEs that better funded and less information
intense organisations depend upon.
Managing that is difficult - particularly in that effective
management of it depends far more on getting one's hands out of the
machinery and keeping them out than in making plans and then forcing
people to implement them.
I suspect the corporate culture of the NHS may be unable to manage
this.
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