Some hackers in Florence and other Italian cities are busy these days putting together Carovana X, an Italian-led initiative to help some Senegalese communities. The members of this project are raising funds, assembling used computers, refurbishing them with Linux, and also collecting medical equipment and other first-necessity items. Besides Linux, the list already includes one ambulance and 26 hospital beds. Volunteers and equipment are welcome.

Port St. Johns is a small town on the Indian Ocean in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It has +- 8000 inhabitants and another 75'000 in the region around and 2 doctors. Roughly 14% of the patients that see Dr. O'Mahony are suffering from a dermatological problem. The next dermatologist would be in East London, 300km from Port St. Johns Since 1999, Dr. O'Mahony has been using teledermatology to provide specialist dermatology services for patients in Port St. Johns. Besides, teledermatology has helped him to improve his own clinical dermatology skills in family practice.

 

Welcome to this new iPath website. This will be home of all actitvities related to iPath - software development, telepathology, etc.