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Why not join one of these sessions or initiate a local one yourself:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.meetup.com/Africa-Open-Data/">http://www.meetup.com/Africa-Open-Data/</a><br>
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Quoting from the site:<br>
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<p>On February 21, we are organizing an Ebola Open Data Jam in
several locations around the world. The goal of this one day
event is to collect publically available data sources of
information that describe the healthcare capabilities of Sierra
Leone. It is a sad fact of history that many multinational
organizations have more data about Sierra Leone and Liberia
healthcare than their own Ministries of Health. We are looking
for detailed descriptions about hospitals and clinics, doctors,
nurses, beds, equipment, ambulances, staff, roads, supply
chains, IT and communications capabilities. <br>
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<p>We want to collect and curate this information and make it a
gift to the nations of Liberia and Sierra Leone to post it on
their Open Data Portal so that they are empowered to know more
about their own country and to share that knowledge with the
international community so that health governance and patient
outcomes can be improved. We know that greater information and
transparency is a pre-requisite to public confidence in health
services, which itself is a condition for economic recovery.</p>
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<p> Participants will be asked to choose from five workstreams:</p>
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1. Collecting healthcare data, corroborating sources,
documenting metadta</p>
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<p> 2. Curating data and developing templates for ongoing records
management to help SL maintain the accuracy of the information
over time</p>
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<p> 3. Communication protocols between health facilities to manage
information and coordinate capacity.</p>
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<p> 4. Define Data Governance program components to integrate
health information management with government and civil society
stakeholders as part of Open Government Initiative</p>
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<p> 5. Develop educational materials to enable the governments of
liberia and sierra leone to skill up on Open Data and Data
Governance and become self-sufficient.</p>
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<p> 6. Provide data Visualization Workstreams & Analytics to
make data consumable by the citizens. </p>
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We are working closely with the governments of Sierra Leone and
Liberia, the Open Government Partnership, the UN Mission for
Ebola Emergency Response, the World Bank, USAID, CDC, WHO, and
many others. </p>
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We are meeting in NYC, Washington DC, Winchester UK, Freetown,
Monrovia, and Kampala on February 21st in a globally coordinated
Ebola Open Data Jam to collect, curate and publish datasets,
photos, videos, and other rich media which describe the
healthcare capabilities of West African nations confronting the
Ebola Epidemic. We want to empower these nations with accurate
information about their own health capabilities to better govern
the availability of resources and build health security.</p>
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Gavin Fleming
t: 0218620670
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c: 0845965680
f: 0866164820
Paarl
South Africa
18°59'19.6"E 33°44'46.1"S</pre>
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