Posted 4 February 2008. The Cairn Centre is located in a recently refurbished historic building in the centre of Dundee. £1.2 million (including a capital grant of £80,000 from NHS Tayside) was raised by CAIR Scotland and Dundee Cyrenians to refurbish a former Baptist Church in the city centre. The new facility provides a base for the provision of support and interventions for ...   (read article)

Posted 28 January 2008. Edinburgh University is the Top Ranked higher education establishment in Scotland. The University has 21 Schools in three Colleges: Humanities & Social Science, Medicine & Veterinary Medicine, and Science & Engineering. With a total of over 24,000 students from more than 130 different countries, Edinburgh is both the largest university in Sco...   (read article)

28 November 2007. Founded 70 years ago, the charity organisation Plan is one of the oldest and largest international development agencies in the world. It works in 49 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas. Plan directly supports more than 1,300,000 children and their families. Plan is independent, with no religious, political or governmental affiliations. (read article)

27 November 2007. This week Global Nomads Group (GNG), an organization dedicated to fostering cross-cultural dialogue and understanding among youth, and Polycom are running the International PULSE video conferencing program, linking the Arab World and the United States.

The five-part interactive educational program runs from 4 to 11 December 2007. It will connect more t...   (read article)

6 November 2007. Medical Missions for Children (MMC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the medical needs of catastrophically-ill children in underserved areas of the United States and the world. MMC’s Telemedicine Outreach Program relies on the medical expertise of 650 volunteers based in American and European hospitals. To date, the network has connected physic...   (read article)

13 June 2007. Medical Missions for Children was awarded the Computerworld Honors Program 21st Century Achievement Award in the Non-Profit Organizations (NPO) category. Medical Missions and AmigoLatino were recognized at the 19th Annual Gala Awards Evening held 4 June 2007 in Washington, D.C. Both use Polycom videoconferencing equipment.

Founded by International Data Gro...   (read article)

17 May 2007. The world is concerned about events in the Gulu region of Northern Uganda. GuluWalk is a global one-day event focused on raising awareness and funds for education, rehabilitation and youth support programs for the terrorized children of northern Uganda.

The GuluWalk is set for Saturday, 20 October 2007. The grassroots worldwide initiative is expected to ta...   (read article)

7 May 2007. Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a leader in the worldwide peace movement, will host the final Spring 2007 video conference session of the CURRENTS: Religions of the World program from the MV Explorer passenger ship, the traveling campus of SAS, when it docks in Honolulu, Hawaii, on May 7.

The event was sponsored by Semester at Sea(R) (SAS), the natio...   (read article)

 12 February 2007. Instantstream, Inc. and Medicine for Africa (MfA) announces a collaborative venture with Medicine for Africa (MfA) to provide and delivertelemedicine services to physicians and medical universities in select African countries.

Medicine for Africa is a public-private partnership (PPP) project, aimed at supporting the general health care system in...   (read article)

15 December 2006. Who are the most enthusiastic users of videoconferencing. The answer is children, certainly at this time of year. This year Santa Claus used a Cisco IP video telephone at his headquarters at the North Pole. Now that call charges are free using the Internet, we can expect Santa to make more use of video calls to hospitals at Christmas time in future years!

 7 December 2006. Global Nomads Group (GNG), an organization dedicated to fostering cross-cultural dialogue and understanding among youth, and Polycom have announced that Nick Clooney, noted journalist and television host, will host the GNG PULSE Program for U.S. high school students on the genocide in Sudan, on 12 December at 1 p.m. ET.

Nick Clooney and his son, a...   (read article)

28 August 2006. To unite against discrimination, young Muslims, indigenous peoples and Christians from all over the Philippines convened today for a live videoconference on giant screens at the Nismed Auditorium in Quezon City and at the ULS Convention Hall, USM Kabacan, North Cotobato. They partcipated in the PeaceTech 2 programme from 8:00 am to 12 noon.The MCs of PeaceTech 2...   (read article)

7 August 2006.  Medical Missions for Children (MMC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the medical needs of catastrophically ill children in underserved areas of the United States and the world. More than 25,000 children in over 100 nations, including the United States, have been helped since the organization was founded at St Josephs’ Children Hospital in P...   (read article)

 06 June 2006.  Aethra has announced that Niky Frascisco is being named a UNICEF Junior Ambassador for children’s rights to education in the Mediterranean. Niky Frascisco’s story has become a symbol representing the right to education for children who are not able to attend school on a regular basis.

Niky is a nine year old boy who was born with a rare form o...   (read article)

12 December 2005. The seventh annual Internet2 Megaconference was held during the Fall 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting in Chicago from 4-7, December 2006. More than 300 locations were involved this year, from Beijing to Brazil. The event started at 7.50 am and ended at 10.45 pm.

In December 2004, there were 372 registered sites around theworld - on all continents except Antarctica - bring...   (read article)

9 December 2005. Was this the world’s biggest videoconference ever held ... and worthy of inclusion in the Guinness Book of Records.?  TANDBERG thinks the answer is “yes”.  TANDBERG reports that: 15,045 people from 94 countries participated in the largest and longest video conference ever held in an event organised by CERN.

The “Beyond Einstein” event held by CERN to mark the...   (read article)

29 September 2005. The third Empower Peace video conference took place on 29 September 2005, with  students from Cairo, Egypt and  Islamabad, Pakistan video meeting with students from Long Beach High School in Long Island, New York and a student delegation from four Greater Boston area high schools. Students organised their own presentations to the 90-minute videoconference. Over 700 ...   (read article)

12 September 2005.  On 14 September, YouthAIDS Global Ambassador Ashley Judd will kick off CURRENTS, a series of international teen videoconferencing exchanges on the subject of HIV/AIDS produced by Global Nomads Group in partnership with YouthAIDS and Semester at Sea, and sponsored by Polycom, Inc. This demonstrates that celebrities care and can make a difference.

Judd, along with...   (read article)

Global Nomads Group helps high school students embark on a Global Exploration of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic by Video Conference; Students have a Worldwide Forum to discuss the Epidemic and its consequences across the World

29 June 2005. Global Nomads Group (GNG) is proud to launch CURRENTS 2005, an international education initiative bringing together American High School students with their ...   (read article)

31 March 2003. The RSPCA, a UK Charity,  has total of about 1500 workers and 500 mobile field staff who need to be connected with a modern and effective communications infrastructure. The RSPCA chose a converged IP network solution and installed a RADVISION viaIP Gateway and RADVISION viaIP 400 multipoint conferencing unit for the videoconferencing connections.

The RSPCA applicatio...   (read article)

Through the use of its telemedicine network, MMC is elevating the level of pediatric care available to children with severe medical conditions living in medically underserved areas of the U.S. and foreign countries.

MMC`s goal is to aid 10,000 seriously ill children directly and 50,000 to 100,000 children indirectly through its Global Telemedicine and Learning Network.

Polycom...   (read article)