Thanks Christian for uploading these forms. Perhaps I should explain that the travel expense estimates are to be completed by those who seek to get financial support to attend the OSHCA Conference 2007 from May 8-11 in Kuala Lumpur. Priority will be given to presenters/trainers who had or will submit abstract(s) for their presentation. Annoucements to this effect had been made on this list as well as other lists before. Priority will also be given to OSHCA members or would-be-OSHCA members, individuals or from non-profit organisations. "Small-fit" or up-start for-profit organisations will be considered for major expense support (partial scholarship for items like airfare, hotel), if the technical committee feels that their presence and presentation will benefit the conference participants. For your information, Conference registration is approx. USD100 (MYR350) per person that also covered lunch and 2 tea/coffee breaks with snacks for 4 days.
I would like to mention here that support for such scholarships is only possible through the generousity of the Research Support Grant from IDRC, Canada (thanks to Laurent Elder who is on this list) and UNDP-APDIP's IOSN Asean+3 programme (thanks to Alvin Marcelo who is also on this list) Alvin is also working with OSHCA to organise a training programme for at least 20 new programmers from Asia in our capacity building initiative with funding from InWEnt, Germany. This programme will be carried out during concurrent sessions on the 4th day of the conference. We are still finalising the training content which will focus on FOSS concepts and Health Data Interoperability. I would welcome the presenters and participants coming for the conference to volunteer to be trainers if appropriate. Apart from the committee members having to volunteer their time to "manage" the conference (hence a different form for committee), others who wish to also volunteer are encouraged to do so. The Logistics Committee will come out with a "to-do" list for "before and during" the conference. Please e-mail me (or Alvin) directly for information on availability of other funding sources, depending on where you are coming from e.g IOSN South Asia. My apologies that the OSHCA web-portal is painfully slow, so we will try to upload any updated conference programme and annoucements here as well. A separate mailing list called [EMAIL PROTECTED] had been created (thanks to Soo Hoe) for those who will be attending the OSHCA conference to receive updates and announcements regarding the conference. Subsequently all those who register to attend the conference using form-002 will be subscribed to the list. There are several people who will be attending the conference but are not on this openhealth list. The settings for the list are: - all members can post without moderation - people can subscribe and unsubscribe by themselves - list archive publicly viewable If you wish to subscribe to this mailing list, go to the participants ml webpage at http://mailman.oshca.org/mailman/admin.cgi/participants and subscribe or if you have problem, let me know so that I can subscribe you to the list. Apologies for this lengthy post. Rgds, Molly Christian Heller wrote: >Hi, > >I have uploaded three documents to the OpenHealth Site at Yahoo: >http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/files/oshca/ > >The documents are for: >- OSHCA Conference 2007 registration >- Obtaining Travel Expense Estimate for Non-Committee Members >- Obtaining Travel Expense Estimate for Committee Members > >Christian > > >
