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“The biggest thing of all was just getting things to work reliably,” he said. “Zoom has met the challenge well. We set up this complex network around the country that involved dishes being put on mountain-tops . now we use [Zoom] instead of our dishes.”
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This photo could have come from the age of Covid video-conferencing, but Gowland, David Nicol, Stephen Mark and Peter Davidson were communicating in 2009 between Queensland and a bus in the Christchurch Hospital carpark. This knowledge-sharing initiative came close on the heels of Gowland’s other resource-sharing drive: the mobile surgical unit, operating around the country since 2002.