Workshop Programme

Day 1 – Saturday 23rd February from 8:30 am to 4pm
	Opening Session: Chair – Dr. Gada Kadoda
8:30 – 9	Arrival & Registration
9 – 9:30	Opening and Welcome by Workshop Co-organisers
9:30 – 10:30	Keynote Talk on “Knowledge and Health: Implications for Sudan” (Mr. Paul Corney)
	Session 1 (Sudan Public Health System): Chair – Professor Abdalla Elkhawad
10:30  – 11:30	Overview of Sudan Public Health System and Information Flows & Local Public Health Knowledge Related Initiatives: Making innovation work for the poor (Professor Asma Elsony)
11:30 – 11:45	Break
	Session 2 (Sudan Public Health Research): Chair – Dr. Iqbal Ahmed Elbasheer
11:45 – 12:45	The Mycetoma Research Centre: Case study (Professor Ahmed Fahal)
12:45 – 1:30	Lunch
	Round-table Discussion Sessions
1:30 – 2:30	Thinking outside of the box (Mr. Paul Corney)
2:30 – 4:00	Knowledge Café (Mr. Paul Corney)
Day 2 – Sunday 24th February from 9am to 4pm
	Session 1 (Paper Presentations): Chair – Dr. Dalia Yahia
9 – 11:30	-          Knowledge Management at the Public Health Institute (Dr. Amjad Wedaa) -          Knowledge management or evidence management? The quality chasm (Dr. Abdelmoniem Mukhtar) -          EpiLab's Path Finding in Knowledge Management and on Models for Public Health Services: Ongoing Initiatives and Way Forward (Uz. Rofaida Elzubair) -          Open Access: Friend not Foe (Dr. Rania Baleela) -          Leveraging ICTs for better public health (Dr. Nazik Nurelhuda) -          Knowledge Management’s “Technologies of Inscription” (Dr. Gada Kadoda)
11:30 – 11:45	Break
	Session 2 (Software Demonstrations & Posters Display)
11:45 – 12:45	-          KM Open Source Software for the Health Sector (Iram Oshari, Nada Mahmoud – Sudanese Knowledge Society) -          KOHA Integrated Library System (Rudwan Siddig Elsheikh – Public Health Institute) -          Asthma Patient Follow-up System (Arweena Seed Ahmed, Mai Faysal, Yasser Ahmed – Garden City College for Science and Technology) -          Vaccination Monitoring System (Innovation Lab Pilot Project Team – Sudan University of Science & Technology) -          Birth Registration System (Eman Abuobeida, Tayba Elsdeeg, Salma Mahgob – Sudan University of Science & Technology) -          PHI forum (Reem Gaafar, Abdelmoniem Mukhtar – Public Health Institute) -          Clearing house (Osman Almahal – Public Health Institute)
12:45 – 1:30	Lunch
	Round-table Discussion Sessions
1:30 – 3:00	Thinking about the future (Mr. Paul Corney)
3:00 – 3:45	Future Story (Mr. Paul Corney)
	Closing Session: Chair – Professor Ahmed Fahal
3:45 – 4:00	Participants’ Reflections & Workshop Recommendations