AFRO-NETS> Supercourse Newsletter - 6 December 2002

[Ron LaPorte <super1+@pitt.edu>]

Supercourse Newsletter - 6 December 2002
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http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/

Dear Friends,

"The dissemination of knowledge is one of the cornerstones of civili-
zation." J.F. Budd

We are preparing for the dissemination of the knowledge of the Super-
course. We are to build the prevention cornerstone by maximizing ac-
cess to prevention.

It has been great fun figuring how to maximize the dissemination of 
the CD. It is jam-packed with the latest and best of lectures, 1,038 
and EpiInfo.

Dr. Najeeb Al-Shorbaji from WHO EMRO in Cairo has helped to shape the 
thoughts of us and the 60 people who are working to maximize dissemi-
nation. He indicated that he could distribute the CD to the over 500 
libraries in health and environment in the WHO EMRO region. Imagine 
that!!! It is truly wonderful and this got us to think.

We have almost 10,000 people in the Supercourse. Why don't we try to 
drop our little CD seed of prevention into every library in the 
world? This would help all of us, and the teachers in our countries 
to have access to our lectures. Can we do this?
 
"Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out." 
CF Kettering

The CD to Library Plan

The last few times we have sent our CDs, we asked you to distribute 
it primarily among students. Here we ask that you distribute it to 
libraries. Based upon our discussions, providing these to libraries 
can maximize the access of prevention lectures. You could also send a 
copy of the CD to your sister in Madras, or your mother in Lima, or 
your daughter in Shanghai, and they go to the library with the CD in 
their hand and ask to put a copy in their library.

Is it an impossible task? No, nothing is impossible for the Super-
course team. There are over 80,000 libraries in the world. Many of 
you know leaders in education, as you are leaders in education. All 
we need to do is to identify these leaders and trickle the CD down to 
all the libraries in your country.

It is likely that this would take about an hour. We would be happy to 
write letters for you. Wouldn't it be fantastic to see CDs in your 
local library, all libraries in your prefecture and all the libraries 
in your country, and to know that you did this? You can give the gift 
of prevention to your country.

If you have ideas about how to distribute to libraries, please send a 
note to <ronlaporte@aol.com>
 
"Life is finite, while knowledge is infinite." Zhuang Zi

Other Distributors:

Many people have offered to help share the CDs from the world. We had 
a very peculiar letter from a Northern area of the world. The note 
was:
 
"Dear Supercourse group,

I am very excited about the Supercourse CD. It answers many gift 
problems for me, please send 500 million CDs.

I will be pleased to distribute CDs for world wide, during a 24 hours 
period late December as I will have personal contact with many of the 
children of the world. It would be my honor to distribute these to 
all the children in the world of the Supercourse, irrespective of 
race, religion, country. I want to bring joy. To bring joy, we must 
prevent disease.

I wish you all a very happy season of the year.
 
S. Claws"

It was a wonderful note from this very strange man. Akira came up 
with a hypothesis that we are now in the process of testing. He 
thinks that Santa Claus is an epidemiologist and secretly working 
with the Supercourse. We are going to check this out, as he sure 
knows how to distribute CDs!!

Ho Ho Ho - best wishes to all

Ron, Dancer, Akira, Faina, Prancer, Eugene, Mita, Eun Ryoung, Donner, 
Soni, Rania, Abed, Blitzen, Julia, Tom, Deb 
mailto:super1+@pitt.edu

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