The Canadian Design Research Network-(CDRN) is setting up a prototype Design Grid. The Design Grid has several goals including:1)enabling national and international design reviews in areas ranging from urban planning, landscape architecture, architect and aerospace engineering. 2)allowing interactive discussions including video/audio streaming and shared powerpoints between highly distributed individuals and institutions where individuals may only have access to very modest technical resources. 3)allowing the public to access visualizations of buildings and see the impact of those buildings. 4)allow the sharing of design courses across universities.

The Laboratory for Collaborative Diagnostics works in the field of Collaborative Diagnostics. A definition of Collaborative Diagnostics is found at www.lcd.utoronto.ca. The Malaria TV project is an application of our Collaborative Digital Microscope project described in greater detail at the link (www.lcd.utoronto.ca/collaborativedigitalmicroscope.html).The Malaria TV project will give participants a sense on how public health tools can be designed, developed and delivered using: 1)collaboration technologies like Access Grid; 2)commodity or cheap computation gear and 3)generic public health lab microscopes and CCD cameras.To demonstrate the tool's effectiveness the participants will be able to interact with a real live parasitologist who will interpret and explanation biological samples. We will also be attempting to link in labs from other parts of Canada and Africa.The session will give participants a sense on how collaboration technology can be used to address very real problems.