NREN Networking Effortsin

Tele-medicine and High Altitude Research

Presentation at

Internet2 Developing Country SIG meeting

San-Diego, CA

8th October 2007

Gaurab Raj Upadhaya/ Prashant Manandhar

Myagdi Network

Remote camera

New Makwanpur Network

Imja_tse

• Imja_tse is a high altitude mountain lake near Mt. Everest

• Collaboration with APAN-JP

• Lead by Konishi Kajunori

Imja_Tse

Some more work

• Connecting all of these remote networks to closest District hospitals and further to the Hospitals in Kathmandu

• Further collaboration with APAN-JP and other academic networks to connect to experts in other countries.

Efforts

• Our efforts are to connect medical across regions to collaborate

• Help ongoing research in high altitude sickness and associated areas

• Setup training mechanism to help health workers in remote areas to contact / converse over networking mediums to experts in hospitals.

• Other software than can assist in these.

Thanks

Gaurab Raj Upadhaya / Prashant Manandhar

nren@prime.edu.np

gaurab @ lahai.com

prashant@prime.edu.np