Information distribution among medical institutions and hospitals is no better. Most of the government medical schools have only one computer or none at all. None has Internet access. These institutions can hardly come by funding to purchase adequate medical textbooks or journals. But medical teachers, physicians, and students from remote locations seldom get the opportunity to use these resources.
Transmission speed is very slow.
To develop a nonprofit system for the subscribers to communicate at the cheapest possible actual cost. How the idea came about Because of my opportunity to work directly with computers since 1989 in my philanthropic organization, Sandhani International Eye Bank, which campaigns for posthumous eye donation and effective eye banking in Bangladesh, I developed a natural weakness for computers and began subscribing to the locally available computer magazines to learn about developments in the field. Thus, when a commercial firm started offline e-mail and BBS service in late 1994, I subscribed at the first opportunity. At the time, I was an assistant professor at Dhaka Medical College. I was looking for ways to use e-mail to make current medical information available for my professional colleagues and students.