CAPÍTULO I: MARCO TEÓRICO
CAPÍTULO 4: CONCLUSIONES Y RECOMENDACIONES
4.2. RECOMENDACIONES
As mentioned previously, we went through five cydcs of the 50cially aware computing fril.l1lework whid! was discussed in Chapler 3. T"hle ~ provides a synopsis of I,he entire project with,," des<:ription of the major event~ that occuned durin~ each proje<:t cyde. It aloo identifies the field vi:;it;;; and when they occurred in the project timeline lib well "" the allic;;; that we used at carll ph"'" of the project. The allies included One of the nctwork Mministrators trained by lhe CSIR., the head nurse of T8ilit,wa dinic, the community leader of Tsilitwa, the district manage,," from the Department of Health (DoH) in I,he region and one of our researchers, 1>1 r VIl7.". originally from the Eastern Cape.
Through Our DoH ally, we klhbied the DoH to ~ustain the telemedi~ille proje~t we bc~. MI Vuza was our ally in that he was the only researcher in our group "'ith a similar cultural hackgrollnd to the commllnity membeI8 and who spoke the same lan.o;uage. We alw identify a ~pecial type of ally we uiled; the local d!alllpion. Acoordin~ to the RAjRl frame,,-ork, the local ~llampion i!; an individual in" position of authority who is respected hy oommnnity mem[,..n; that ,;ets an e",ample
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I (Aug 03) A~ what irurMtructure' was pr"""nt Conducted ,"*<is <lliOCSS,!Ilcnt
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Oiscover<:d prohlems with networkand power affecting be telemedicirK' s}"'tem
2 (Dec 03) Ndwork admin' Papcr prototype shmv and tell demo Network arlmin )'1~1. DoH and secured pcrnli&ion for
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DoH Provided trAining for doctor and nu,""
2JHl Testcd And installed lRt MuTi
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(Rese<lIcher)Nrtwork "dmiTl Traim-d doctor and n'nse 4 (.June 1);1) Nurse" TeAled and installed 2nd MuTI
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Ur Vnza (RereardKT) Invited. to work in TsiJi\w<l. by
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4th OJmlIllmity leader Provided digitAl camera and training
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Impl<:IIK'ntc-d first part of cxit Rtratgey
X~1work admin llemovod all ""luipment and wftw<lIe
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1Ir Vuza Gathered Jlnal results
Table 1, Thi;; table shows thc fkld vi;;iu;, the major allies and t,he IllA.in event,s for each proje'Ct cycle_ The asterisk (~) represents the ally fulfilling the' rok' of the loe .... l champion "nd DoH is an ahbreviAtion fOT the Department of HeAlth.
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This individuaJ i~ therefore key in helping fo"ter buy-in from or,her community member" ami by doing 80, driving the projed forward.Our local dlamp}On WAA initially one of t,he network administrators trained by the CSIH:. also a schoolteacher at the Tsilitwa schooL He hclpc>d 'lll foster relar,iOll,hip' wit,h the nurse at Tsilitwa dinie and to arrange meeting>; Wil,h eommunity mcmheffl_ Durin~ the il<-,"Olld project eycle, there wa, a shift in champion" to the head nur"" of Tsilitwa dinic. The head nurlle had a good rclatioruillip
"ilh the community leader of Tsilitwa and moot importa.:ntiy, she bought into the technolo!\Y. We belic'Ve that she cOIlvincm the community leader that our proje<'J, would aid health care in the arca.
Consequent.!y. we "",xe aecepwd hy the community leader and given free reign to work in Tsilitwa_
Thi, Wa>i an achievement "ince the CSIR had previously experienced dift1cultie< in dealing with this communiiy leader in I,heir own projoct and relt that without hi~ aceL'Ptanee, any project in the Mea would probably liot "uccc",>d.
As shown in Table 4, the project ra.n rrom AUb'Ust 2003 to October 2004. Table 5 descriheJ the steps ";e took to meet each Real Aceess oxiterion and Table 6 describes how we u.>cd the 8 hahil;s d highly eff!IC(h'e Information a.nd Communication Tochnology (leT) enahled dewjopment init;ative, in the projc'"t.
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Criteria _"arne Usage Durin,; I.h~ Project
Unreliable electricity supply, project u"ed lapwp, to overcome power problem,
Physical (Ieee,.S to tochnology U"",d VoIP over WiFi net,work "" T,he iillrastruct.ure was already a.vailah1e
ProjeCT, aimed to delllonstra.tc ncui for change in le:98lation in favour of VoIP and \ViFi
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Secure environme<lt for equipment ""d u>c in
A p I'ropri~ten(J'<; 01' technoio~y hospital and clinic
Laptop" could nm for 5-6 ooum on battery aud extm batteries "",xe SUppliM