• Project goals
• DENEMA is focused on
• Project Coordinators
• Project Participants
• Services provided
• Project events

Organisation of new direct contacts between health care, education and business professionals in Central Asia and telematics applications developers in Western Europe using new telecommunications. The project aims to determine which technologies are most efficient in these fields in Central Asia and how these technologies could increase the quality of the services.

 
 DENEMA is focused on

• Adopting new information technologies in fields of distance learning, telemedicine, electronic commerce through Central Asia Region;
• Connecting Central Asia Region to Information Highway;
• Testing and adaptation telematics products through Central Asia;
• Supplying hottest information about Central Asia telematics market.

 
 Project Coordinators

	Funding Agency Commission of European Communities (CEC)
	Coordinator United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
	Executing Agency Kazakstan Telecommunications (KATELCO)

 
 Project Participants

Kazakstan	Central Asian Health Care Clearing House (HCCH) at Regional Diagnostics and Consultation Centre, Almaty. Rebublic Centre for New Technologies in Education, Almaty. Contact us:askat@caidc.katelco.com
Kyrgyzstan	Kyrgyz State National University, Bishkek. WHO Regional Information Centre, Bishkek. Kyrgyz National Hospital, Bishkek. Contact us:adm@hospital.bishkek.su
Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan Regional Bank Training Centre, Tashkent. Tashkent Diagnostic Centre, Tashkent. Contact us: postmaster@denema.org.uz
Tajikistan	Diagnostics Centre of ministry of health, Dushanbe.
Turkmenistan	Diagnostics Centre of the name S. Niyazov, Ashgabad. Contact us: mcct@tm.synapse.ru

 
 Services provided

• tele-consultations;
• easy retrieval and exchange of documented medical information via Internet (electronic mail and in real time (on-line)) both internationally and in the Central Asian region; exchange and process information on methods of diagnostics:
  
  • access to world wide specialised biomedical, and other, information banks;
  • commercial information on medicine;
• tele-training.

Tele-medical net consists of:

• Central Asian Health Care Clearing House (at the Almaty Diagnostics and Treatment Centre);
• telecommunication centre (Almaty, KATELCO);
• foreign consultation diagnostics centre;
• regional medical information centre (Stage 1 - around 4 clinics in Kyrgystan (Bishkek), Uzbekistan (Tashkent), Turkmenistan (Ashgabad) and Tadjikistan (Dushanbe).

 
 Project events

Electronic Commerce for SMEs Workshop and Training:
Regional Bank Training Centre, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 17-18 Mar. 1998;

Distance Education For Central Asia Workshop:
Kyrgyz State National University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 25-26 May 1998;

Telemedicine Applications Workshop and Training:
Regional Diagnostics and Consultancy Centre, Almaty, Kazakstan,
will be conduct as a separate session of the Eurasia On Line'98 conference;

Eurasia On Line'98 Conference:
Almaty, Kazakstan, October 1998.

For contacts:

Dana Ziyasheva Information and Informatics Division, UNESCO e-mail:d.ziyasheva@unesco.org Tel: (331) 45 68 42 41, Fax: (331) 45 68 55 83 Address: 1, rue Miollins, 75015 Paris http://www.unesco.org/webworld/en/highlight.htm

Karine Kotoyants JSC "Kazakstan Telecommunications" (KATELCO) e-mail:karin@katelco.com Tel: (+7-3272) 53 38 56, Fax: (+7-3272) 50 38 76 Address: 2, Timiryazeva st., 480000 Almaty http://www.katelco.com/UNESCO/index.html