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Poster no. 78
Organising Health
Promotion Research Conferences with IT-support - a new way of participants involvement
Haglund Bo JA, Åberg
Mikael, Berg Lars
Karolinska Institutet, Department of Public Health Sciences,
Division of Social Medicine |
| Abstract |
The aim of this paper is to present the
possibilities and challenges that is within the frame of using internet when implementing
a conference also aiming at participants involvement already from the planning phase of
the conference. Thus the objectives are first to present the facilities created on the
Internet , and second to discuss some insights from this process. The vision of the
conference was to create possibilities to be involved in the planning phase shaping the
programme and discuss the abstracts. The methods used have been use of Internet
facilities. Web pages continuously up-dated have been in use since 16th of January 1998.
In addition three types of discussion fora were established. An open chat area, a list for
those interested, and thirdly a "web chat" forum with the possibilities to write
directly at a web page where you can see what has been discussed earlier. In order to get
information about the participants reviewing of the WebPages of abstracts some questions
were raised about where people come from and if they aimed at participating at the
conference. Results: The 5th of August 2888 persons has visited the main webpage of the
conference. In May special webpages were presented for accepted abstracts. 415 readers
have looked at these webpages in the beginning of August, and almost 90 % have been
participants of the conference. The majority comes from the Nordic countries and fifty
percent come from Sweden, 14 % from Finland, 5 and 2 percent from Norway and Denmark,
respectively. The majority of participants have also used the webpages when providing
their applications for participation or abstracts. However, the available discussion fora
have not been used during the pre-conference time period. |
| Keywords |
Community participation, IT-support |
| Institution |
Karolinska Institutet, Department
of Public Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine |
| Postaddress |
Norrbacka |
| Postcode |
SE-171 76 |
| City |
Stockholm |
| Country |
Sweden |
| Contact |
Åberg Mikael |
| E-mail |
bo.haglund@phs.ki.se |
| Phone |
+ 46 8 517 779 64 |
| Fax |
+ 46 8 33 46 93 |
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