INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
With Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the associated digitalisation processes that are the engine of our globalisation, the technical implementation of the digital computing principle ‘Universal Machine’ (cf. Turing 1936), the Internet and the World Wide Web, new prerequisites have been created for digitalisation in the field of international health care. In the course of these processes, global sociality is adapted into applications by transforming cultural techniques into local specific cultural practices. Mohammed Yassin Blal CEO & Founder, Caresocius.org
THE SEVEN OBSTACLES
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veryone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontier", with these words, the United Nations (UN) spells out a fundamental human right to information in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In our globalised macroeconomic environment, new innovations are emerging almost daily from the earth, but few are truly milestones - as digitalisation (ICTs). With Information and Communication Technologies