Metcalfe's Law

Afan Osman

January 17, 2011

Metcalfe’s Law

It is a law which was first expressed by George Gilder in 1993. It is talking about a value of telecommunication networking. The numbers of connected users are connected by the proportional square. This law helps internet and the social networking. It also helped the economy. “Metcalfe's Law also states that the number of possible cross-connections in a network grow as the square of the number of computers in the network increases. This is the law that governs network effects.” 

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Telemedicine

Afan Osman

January 17, 2007

Telemedicine

          Telemedicine is a new way for the patients to see and visit the doctors using the developed technology. It is used in some developed countries such as the United States of America, India, Canada, and so on. In Pakistan, the U.S embassy helped the governments to establish this new technology. By using the internet, anyone can see a doctor. I can call it the technological hospitals and people can see their doctors just by going online. Thanks for technology, now I feel confident about my health whenever I go because I have TELEMEDICINE. The doctors can check the patients, and then they can send the medicines required.

I think it has some advantages in the developed countries those who have great infrastructure. It can save much time for both the individuals and the doctors. It can also reduce the pollution a bit because people don’t need to use their cars or to use trails or other things to go to see their doctors. Another advantage is the individuals can see the doctors more and in a cheap way.

I think it is a good thing to use here because of the following reasons. Iraq is not a safe place, and the doctors can’t feel safe here. To protect everyone from the explosions, it is better to have telemedicine in the dangerous cities of Iraq. So both the doctors and the patients will be safe from anything dangerous. The Iraqi cities are good places to have some technological (telemedicine) hospitals because all the roads are paved and the medicine can be sent in a very short time.

I don’t see some obstacles in doing such a thing because Iraq doesn’t have hackers. So there will not be such a risk in front of it. InshaAlla we will have it soon. It just needs a simple decision by the Ministry of Health of Iraq.