Possibilities multiply, from online education of dentists, patients and communities to tele-consults, to artificial intelligence algorithms and models to evaluate clinical conditions and offer treatment alternatives from real-time health monitoring to advanced digital diagnostic imaging and computer assisted design to robotic solutions to producing restorations. Now, apply this power to dentistry and multiple applications appear for healthcare, research and dental education. Consider your computer, your phone, your tablet and other devices allow finding, gathering, creating and distributing information, and how they provide the tools to facilitate comprehension and its reconstruction, and you have in computer technologies a very powerful educational tool. ICT are the modern tool to access information spread though time and space. Obviously, it is not enough by itself, but it is also obvious that without pertinent and reliable information, education suffers. If education is all about permanent development of capabilities of understanding our role in the world and to act accordingly in responsible and constructive ways (and I believe it is), then information is indeed a requirement for education.
I believe that properly used that can help us to build a better world, and that they are particularly useful to improve access to quality education and healthcare, as well as other aspects of our lives.
I understand Information Communications Technologies (ICT) as a valuable resource to improve our quality of life. Find me somewhere in the confluence of the information technology revolution we live in, the firm conviction that education is the key to a better future, and my dentistry and teaching backgrounds.
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