  Health research capacity strengthening is of importance to reach health
goals. The ARCADE projects' aim was to strengthen health research across Africa
and Asia using innovative educational technologies. In the four years of the EU
funded projects, challenges also of technical nature were identified. This
article reports on a study conducted within the ARCADE projects. The study
focused on addressing challenges of video conferencing in resource constrained
settings and was conducted using action research. As a result, a plugin for the
open source video conferencing system minisip was implemented and evaluated.
The study showed that both the audio and video streams could be improved by the
introduced plugin, which addressed one technical challenge.
