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Latest revision as of 23:27, 15 March 2013
Webchair is a company providing videoconferencing hardware to enable sick children to virtually attend a class and keep contact with their classmates.
- Currently more than 100 schools, hospitals and revalidation centres in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany and USA use Webchair to reconnect students to each other and their classes.
One of the two owners, Graham Smith, states to have created - with the help of 2 universities - the first distance learning system for ill children in 1996 called 'Pebbles'.
Webchair is based in Delft, The Netherlands
The company's website is http://www.webchair.com.
Initiatives using Webchair
- Ziezon, the Dutch network for support of ill children
- Bednet, the Flemish initiative enabling education for ill children.
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