HUSITA7 Synthesis Report

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HUSITA7 Synthesis Report

• Dick Schoech
• U of TX at Arlington School of Social Work

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HUSITA7 forces us to encounter understand
things we have not experienced before

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Finding Connecting the Dots at HUSITA7 is
difficult

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New Concepts at HUSITA7

• Jockey Club Our friends and supporters are
  everywhere, need to network and ask
• 2008 more Chinese speaking than English speaking
  Internet users
• E-life style (Singapore)
• Education portals including parents, students
  alone, and supporters (UK, HK, others)
• Gradual disclosure during online counseling
  (Singapore)
• Digital inclusionavailable, affordable,
  assessable (Kelly)
• Only one in 250 people in Africa can connect to
  the Internet (Canadian video)
• The computer is coming to our village (Canadian
  video)

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More new concepts

• Wearable IT (Vanderheiden)
• Small nanotech robots. Things you do not see
  are as important as things you see. No-see-ems
• Measure computer performance in human brain
  power, 20241brain computer
• 144 hours of training for cyber counselor
  certificate to gain the new skills, BBS
  moderation (Singapore)
• Family formed by a string of successful marriages
  (Finland)

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• Dots in pictures

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Make people feel welcomed
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Make a good first impression
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Make others look good no matter how difficult the
task
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Interest in our presentations was unprecedented.
Witness a typical interview of a session speaker
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Everyone likes something to take home and show
their boss
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Attract big crowds
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Doing is learning
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Learn the local customs
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• Challenges

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Evidence Based

• Use research, measurement, evaluation,
  cost/benefit information (Dr Hanna)
• Critical mass needed Training one teacher on IT
  in each school is a waste of time (Dr. Kelley)

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Design with digital Inclusion in mind

• Review what others have done. Tours of the
  Americas, Japan, Korea, Singapore China show
  lots is being done.
• Develop IT only as a last resort. Least
  desirable is to have special designs for the
  human services because of the problems with
  funding and support.
• Think of market potential before design. Design
  so market will pick up and run with product
• Consider how non human service clients can use
  solutions so industry will develop and support
  solutions.
• Design for options, choice, and to empower

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Using IT as a hot medium

• Move from text
• Better to use pictures, music, video
• Better yet to be interactive infotainment,
  Disneyworld
• Example Typhoon. Level 8, black rain --
  energized a tired audience yesterday

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• Final Challenges and Lessons from HUSITA7

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Some things are hard to explain
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Get together a hard working board
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Involve many wonderful hard working staff and
volunteers
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Clone Dr. John Fung and Staff