Geneva Health Forum Open Village

The GHF Open Village is a series of participatory activities to value health as commons during the Geneva Health Forum.

It is a joint event of the Geneva Health Forum and Open Geneva, realized by Breathing Games.

Initial observation
6 in 10 humans still have no access to care, or do not adhere to it, despite rising investments.

Alcohol-based hand rub and WikiMed illustrate how creating freely reproducible equipment and software with communities can: save millions of lives, increase integrity, cut costs by 90%.

Cooperation-driven care is the only way to realize the 2030 agenda in time: health for everyone.

We present alternatives to the dominant proprietary excluding innovation model, to drive development towards a responsible, solidar society.

Mission
We federate not-for-profit communities enhancing collective health, enabling individuals to better take care of their health, and build more resilient healthcare systems through co-created, freely reproducible technologies.

We lead and support a set of cooperation-driven, multidisciplinary, science-backed projects that foster solidarity and peer to peer contribution.

We strive to mutualize efforts and tools, and help shape a common-ground for like-minded projects to work together on common outcomes.

Values
For us,
 * quality of cooperation prevails over competition
 * mutual support prevails over technical expertise
 * freedom of adaptation rather than excluding propriety
 * with and by user communities rather than for them
 * creation-as-research rather than research after creation

Benefits
For people taking part in the GHF Open Village, we envision following benefits:
 * sharing practices including open design, manufacturing of medical devices vs reproducibility, multidisciplinary community building, etc.
 * mutualizing resources such as expertise of people affected, access to caregivers, health data infrastructures etc.
 * developing common projects such as raising funds to test devices in various settings, hosting events to raise awareness on open health, etc.
 * advocating for ‘public money, public-driven innovation’ policies in healthcare

First edition
In 2020, we organized a series of twenty hands-on events, detailed with their outcomes: A poster synthesis was released in the nine most spoken languages:
 * GHF Open Village 2020


 * 1) English – Health technology as commons: trustable, affordable, adaptable.
 * 2) Chinese – 公有制下的健康科技: 可信赖, 可负担, 可适应.
 * 3) Hindi – आमजन-स्वामित्व के रूप में स्वास्थ्य प्रौद्योगिकी: विश्वसनीय, अनुकूल एवं किफ़ायती.
 * 4) Spanish – La tecnología de la salud como común: confiable, asequible, adaptable.
 * 5) Arabic – تكنولوجيا الصحة ذات الملكية المشتركة : موثوقة، متاحة وقابلة للتكّيُف.
 * 6) Bengali – সর্ব সাধারনের জন্য সাস্থ্য প্রযুক্তিঃ বিশ্বাসযোগ্য,সাশ্রয়ী,অভিযোজনযোগ্য.
 * 7) French – Technologies de santé en communs : fiables, abordables, adaptables.
 * 8) Russian – Технологии здравоохранения для всех: надежные, доступные, адаптивные.
 * 9) Portuguese – A tecnologia de saúde como comuns: confiável, acessível, adaptável.

Second edition
In 2022, we will invite interested communities to propose activities around health commons, see

People sending proposals will be invited to self-assess their project using a grid developed by co-hosts (^).
 * GHF Open Village 2022

Core contributors
The GHF Open Village was initiatied in October 2019 (*), and its purpose refined early 2021 (^). New co-hosts joined for the second edition (s)


 * Patrons
 * Eric Comte* – executive director of Geneva Health Forum
 * Thomas Maillard* – co-founder of Open Geneva
 * Lead
 * Fabio Balli*^ – co-founder of Breathing Games
 * Co-hosts
 * Mathilde Matringue^ – community manager of EchOpen
 * Clément le Couédic^ – co-founder of Aura
 * Emmanuel Kellner^ – co-founder of LogAir
 * David-Zacharie Issoms – patient innovator
 * David Risses – founder, CREACC-Diversités
 * Key supporters
 * Katerina Serada – policy analyst
 * Jon Schull – founder of E-nable

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