On November 26, we will host an hybrid activity as part of the hackathon held by the Geneva hub for Global Digital Health.
The topic will be: How can technology help us collectively define the rules that affect millions of people?
We will address political and economical barriers to health (critical public health), in particular how to overcome the centralization of decision-making, and the prescription of universalist, closed-source solutions to millions of people.
Goals
We will explore how digital democracy methods and open-source technology can help thousands of humans:
- hear each other’s reality and build trust;
- reach consensus about common priorities;
- put in commons resources to develop freely reproducible solutions within days, acknowledging our realities are plural, subjective, and locally rooted.
Assumptions
We acknowledge that:
- our health improves when we are part of decision-making;
- open-source technology is up to 99% cheaper than IP-based innovation
- today’s technology combined with appropriate coordination methods allow for collective decision-making, more rapidly and adequately than decisions made by an elite subject to legal systemic corruption (when the interest of a minority prevails over the collective interest).
Participating
Let's meet on November 19 from 09:00 to 18:00 CET at one of following places:
| Ideavox ch. de Champ-Claude 10 1214 Vernier |
SDG solution space Campus Biotech avenue de Sécheron 15 1202 Geneva |
Online on https://meet.jit.si/health-demo |
| Calm space valuing commons. No certificate requested. Contact: Fabio |
Fab lab also hosting the eight other challenges of the GDHub hackathon. Covid certificate required. Contact: Emmanuel |
International participants and sharing space among the three places. Contact: Fabio |
Contact us to join the discussion and take part in this activity – in Geneva or online!