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What is Collaborative Network(CN)

Chapter 13
Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services
Is a network consisting of a variety of entities (e.g. organizations, people, machines) that are largely autonomous, geographically distributed, and heterogeneous in terms of their operating environment, culture, social capital and goals, but that collaborate to better achieve common or compatible goals, thus jointly generating value, and whose interactions are supported by computer network.
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Emerging ICT Challenges on Provision of Online HIV/AIDS Advisory Services
Simon Samwel Msanjila (Mzumbe University, Tanzania)
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch013
Abstract
In order to address the research challenges related to spreading, prevention, and treatment of HIV/AIDS it is necessary to look at it from different angles. Considering a single aspect on established initiatives, such as technological or political concerns that have been adopted in research, leaves a “none complete and integrated picture” on challenges related to the provision of services for combating HIV/AIDS. This chapter addresses this aspect by considering a multi-perspective approach and proposes a set of challenges for each perspective. It also considers the technological perspective of provision of HIV/AIDS advisory services and presents challenges towards designing the proposed system.
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