Strategic Plan: Building a Library of Alexandria-OIC-US Supercourse

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Strategic PlanBuilding a Library of
Alexandria-OIC-US Supercourse
Sada Cumber Special Envoy to the OIC
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• Supercourse-Library of Alexandria Team
• Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D., Gilbert Omenn, M.D.,
  Ph.D.
• Ismail Serageldin, Ph.D. Vint Cerf, Ph.D.
• Francois Sauer, M.D.

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Abu-Bakr Mohammaed Ibn-Zakaria Al-Razi (Razes)
841-926 AD
Medicine the art concerned in preserving healthy
bodies, in combating disease, and restoring
health to the sick
Global Health
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Supercourse
Faculty in all countries working together to
improve global health through improving
prevention education
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Human Networks
Ardalan
Qatar
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Concept
Why dont scientists and educators share our
most exciting PowerPoint slides and lectures on
Prevention on the Internet for free?
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Supercourse Network
55,000 Faculty 173 Countries
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Lectures
3418
gt1,000,000 students taught
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Pakistan
Dr. Dodani
620 Members Pakistani Supercourse
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Supercourse Mirror Sites
42 Mirrored Sites, MOH Egypt, Sudan, China,
Mongolia, Russia
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you
can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
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1338 OIC members in the Supercourse team from 48
countries
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Afghanistan 6 Albania 2 Algeria
1 Azerbaijan
28 Bahrain 7 Bangladesh 16 Brunei
Darussalam 1 Burkina Faso 3 Cameroon
14 Cote DIvorie 2 Egypt
104 Gabon 1 Gambia 3 Guyana 2 I
ndonesia 47 Iran 58
Iraq 3 Jordan 34 Kazakhstan
34 Kuwait 10 Kyrgyzstan 4 Lebanon 6 Mal
aysia 78 Maldives 1 Mali 7 Morocco 6 Moza
mbique 4 Niger 3 Nigeria
80 Oman 14 Pakistan 630 Palestine 8
Papua New Guinea 4 Qatar 29 Saudi
Arabia 30 Senegal 7 Sierra
Leone 1 Somalia 4 Sudan
29 Syria 3 Tajikistan 3 Togo 1 Tunisia
2 Turkey 29 Turkmenistan
3 UAE 13 Uganda
2 Uzbekistan 8 Yemen 4
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• Developed under grants from NASA and NLM/NIH
• 80 million hits a year
• Highest Google Ranked Site for Global Health
  lectures
• 170 publications in Science, Nature, PNAS
• Top 100 PC magazine site
• Leading site Arabic for many Prevention topics
• Leading site in many OIC countries
• Enormous Sharing between OIC countries, US and
  world wide

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• Building the OIC Supercourse
• Translation of all lectures into Arabic and
  French
• Creation of Primary centers in the Library of
  Alexandria and WHO CC Pittsburgh
• Increasing collaborators to 5,000 from all OIC
  countries
• Collection of Prevention lectures from OIC
  faculty
• Establishment of Country specific OIC sites
• Dissemination of lectures through Web, Mirrored
  servers, DVDs, Pod casting, etc.

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This lecture is available at www.pitt.edu/super1/
Comments and questions Ambassador
Cumber (cumber_at_state.gov)