AFRO-NETS> Supercourse Newsletter, March 27 2003

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

Supercourse Newsletter, March 27 2003
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http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/

I wish you all joy of the worm. [William Shakespeare]

Golden Lecture and Silk Worm

The golden lecture concept is growing very rapidly. It has moved from 
the range of totally nuts, to hmmm, that is interesting but slightly 
crazy. We very much would like your thoughts.

Countries: Faculty from Argentina, Cuba, Egypt, France, India, Indo-
nesia, Italy, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia (FSU in General), and the US 
have agreed to participate. As indicated in the last news letter, if 
we achieve 20 countries, we will move.

Goal: 1,000,000 people across the world seeing the universal golden 
lecture about prevention.

Lecture Description: The lecture will be state of the art information 
about global cooperation and prevention. It will be a PowerPoint lec-
ture in English. We encourage people to modify and translate, and add 
their own data for each country.

The lecture will be circulated to all members of the Supercourse sev-
eral times before the magic date of Hippocrates birthday on Sept. 19.

What do I have to do? Not much, the simplest is to hit the forward 
button and send the lecture electronically to your friends (and ene-
mies as all should know)

Golden Lecture or Silk worm? This will be a golden lecture of preven-
tion, however, and it will also be a joyful worm. The helpful worm 
concept is that we can send an outstanding prevention lecture onto 
the computers of not only those of us engaged in prevention, but also 
cardiologists, psychologists, vice ministers of health, 8th grade 
teachers, students and grandmothers. We can be a silk worm, spinning 
the web of prevention across computers, to bring more people to pre-
vention.

Can we reach a million people? This is the million dollar question.
We have about 10,000 people in the Supercourse who we will send the 
golden lecture. If half forward it to 5 people, then this would be 
10,000 + 5 x 5000 or 35,000 teachers. If 25,000 of these educators 
teach 40 students about prevention then we have 1,000,000 people 
learning about prevention using our materials. If this happens by 
1/1/04, then on 2/1/04 we put the Supercourse into the Guinness Book 
of World Records as we the Supercourse Faculty teaching a million 
people with a single lecture for the total cost of $1.29.

It is time for the Million Person Prevention web crawl 

Library of Alexandria: Ismail Serageldin, the head of the library of 
Alexandria in Egypt is interested in partnering with us. This is won-
derful as the library is incredible, and symbolic - a gateway between 
east and west, Arab and non-Arab. We will most certainly translate 
the golden lecture into Arabic.

Please send your suggestions about the golden lecture to 
<ronlaporte@aol.com> We hope to have you join us.

Women's Health Supercourse

Faina Linkov is working on the development of the Women's Health / 
Maternal and Child Health Supercourse. This topic is of interest to 
many faculty members and organizations in the Supercourse network, 
including UNICEF. We found that women's health information is not be-
ing shared adequately on the Internet and we hope to change that 
situation by sharing our best lectures on women's health via the Su-
percourse model. If you would like to find out more about this pro-
ject, to participate in this network, or to contribute a lecture on 
women's health, please send us an e-mail. Please put "Women's health 
network" in the subject of the message. We all look forward to hear-
ing from you and we would like to thank you in advance for your par-
ticipation. We already have over 40 outstanding lectures covering the 
topic of maternal and child health. They can be found at our main 
website http://www.pitt.edu/~super1 at "lecture by topic" section.
Please, contact Faina Linkov <fyl1@pitt.edu> with any questions.

Best regards from Springtime, and allergy season in Pittsburgh.

Ron, Faina, Mita, EunRyoung, Akira, Shakespeare, Rania (proud new 
mother of Hana), Eugene, Julia, Abed, Beatriz, Tom, Hippocrates, Deb
mailto:super1+@pitt.edu

Please distribute this message to your friends, and tell them about 
the Supercourse.

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