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| Infrastructure I: Information Technology Core (Project Leader: Mr. Bruce Best (UOG)) |
| Communication between the University of Guam and the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii. The Cancer Research Center of Hawaii (CRCH) has successfully established video teleconferencing with the University of Guam using the services of PEACESAT. PEACESAT is a program for the Telecommunications and Information Policy Group (TIP-G) of the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), University of Hawaii, and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The University of Hawaii and the NTIA have a Cooperative Agreement to support PEACESAT in the Pacific Island Region. PEACESAT stations are primarily housed in educational institutions and government agencies. PEACESAT has a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with each PEACESAT site. The MOU requires sites to maintain and support their systems and provide services to the communities they serve. PEACESAT's teleconferencing service enables all sites to participate in voice or video teleconferences. This is accomplished theough the PEACESAT GOES Mesh Network. PEACESAT manages the satellite airtime scheduling and facilitate the program applications for services. There is no usage charge to the users for this service. PEACESAT purely acts as a bridge to provide the connection between two sites. Both the University of Guam and the University of Hawaii have hub sites (large earth stations) and advanced capability. Besides satellite connectivity, the University of Guam and the University of Hawaii are linked by broadband ISDN circuits and an ATM T-1 link for video backup. Given the successful use of technology for communication, the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii can effectively work with the University of Guam despite the distance between the two institutions. Enhancement of Information Technology Resources linking UOG and CRCH are essential to developing and effective and productive partnership. In addition to monthly videoconferences between the two institutions, associated with planning activivies, we hope to transmit many of CRCH seminars to the University of Guam for viewing and interaction. This will increase exposure of potential cancer researchers at UOG to cutting-edge cancer research with minimal cost. In addition to our regular research seminars, we periodically host sponsored speakers dealing with new clinical treatments and disease specific updates. These talks, generally given in the evening would be available live in Guam in the afternoon and would be useful to health care workers in Guam as well as UOG cancer researchers. |
