Modern Asclepieions are new types of the famous Asclepieions of the ancient Greek world where people were flocking for a cure. Asclepieions soon became places promoting health and culture in an integral and harmonious way. In Modern Asclepieions telematic technologies can make reality the concepts of `equity of access` and `citizen empowerment`, while at the same time social interaction and participation can be promoted for the benefit of all. MAs can be organized to provide services of Health and Culture to citizens – to all of them and not to the sick ones only. The services include scientific and societal information provision, health promotion and prevention, education and services related to Culture, Environment and Welfare. These services are in line with the definition of Health of WHO.
(The Modern Asclepieions Blog: http://asclepieion.blogspot.com/)
WSIS action lines related to this activity: Theme 1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
Theme 3. Access to information and knowledge
Theme 4. Capacity building
Theme 6. Enabling environment
Theme 7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life
Theme 8. Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
Theme 12. Achieving WSIS targets (PoA, Section B)
Theme 15. Towards WSIS Phase 2 (Tunis) (PoA, Section F)
Related MDGs: MDG 8. Develop a global partnership for development
