Glad to hear your CPHA experience was good. Sorry I was not back in town
soon enough to loan you our LCD panel, but I assume to coped. I agree with
your assessment of the CPHA proceedings and your sense that internetting has
great potential to contribute to meeting the emerging needs in health
promotion, especially in advocacy work. I would also second your other
observation that we must not lose our skills in real-time interaction, or
our investment in virtual reality will be at the expense of relating
effectively on those fronts requiring old-fashioned communications. --Larry

At 11:22 PM 7/9/96 -0400, Liz Rykert wrote:
>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
><[log in to unmask]>
>
>
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