While I welcome the news of a policy commitment and funding for using this
electronic venue for health promotion, I worry that a highly centralized
solution has been funded in circumstances where a very decentralized
(nested and linked) solution is called for.

Health promotion is not like wheat. One does not gather "knowledge"
into large silos and then try to get it the bakers. Health promotion is
about turning communities, organizations and individuals into learning
communities, organizations and individuals as they build capacity to deal
with their health and their impact on health. It is a particiaptory and
more decentralized process - calling for local wisdom and judgement, not
just access to remote resources.

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