Well it's over...;-)

Alison and I presented the use of electronic venues in a practice
presentation at the Canadian Public Health Conference in Vancouver last
week.For those on the list who were there please add your impressions as a
reply to this topic.

For those who may have just joined us...Welcome! At anytime we welcome new
participants or lurkers who want to jump in. Post a quick sign on and let us
know who you are, how you have been using the internet in your work (or how
you would like to!) and let us know what you would like to get out of the list.

If you would like a brief summary of where we are at on the list send me
email: <[log in to unmask]> and I'll try to bring you up to speed.

Right now we are in a discussion about the relationship between the literal
and virtual workspaces. You will see this discussion appear under different
topics.

At the conference people were talking a lot about restructuring and reform
in health care. There was a strong emphasis placed on the need to join with
other sectors to address and create health public policy. There was a call
for more advocacy and social justice work.

The use of the internet may become increasingly important as we learn to
work across boundaries...professionals, communities of common bond, sectors
(public, private, non-profit) and interest (health education social
employment housing etc).

In our presentation we emphasized to need to work in both the literal and
virtual, to have our work in these areas complement each other. The
questions we had were good ones...Where will I find the time? What about
access? It pointed out the need to continue with the thread of understanding
how we transform our work and not to see the use of the technologies as an
add on.

Throughout the conference delegates were invited to participate in drafting
a National (Canada) Statement for Health Promotion. I invite those of you on
the list who participated in these sessions to post the outcome of this effort.

There were many interesting panels and presentations. Perhaps next time we
will see an online summary of the days proceedings posted....next year!

So the presentation is over...how are folks feeling about continuing the
list? (click4hp)...seems like a good idea to me but then some might argue I
have a bias ;-)

Liz Rykert
co-facilitator
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