GHF Open Village 2022

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The second edition of the Geneva Health Forum Open Village will take place from May 3 to 5 2022 (Tue to Thu).

Activities should be organized in a green space close to the International Conference Center, as well as online.

Participation should be free of cost.

Purpose

Libre and open-source innovation empowers communities, increases trustworthiness, and cuts costs by up to 100 times.

Acknowledging health commons as the new standard of care, we

federate communities that co-create freely reproducible health knowledge and technologies
empower people through critical thinking and political action in order to identify and tackle socio-economic barriers to health
enhance contributions to and governance of health commons by coordinating efforts and sharing critical successes and challenges

Keywords: solidarity-driven care, health commons, health democracy, citizen-led decision-making,

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All proposal have to

align with the three objectives described above
be not-for-profit and put the quality of cooperation first
be carried by at least three individuals from diverse backgrounds who are directly affected by the topic
dedicate at least two thirds of the activity's time to participants' contributions
be documented in the wiki so that the whole community can benefit from the activity

creation-as-research, that is research emerging from creative work
project-based learning, where the participants have different roles to solve an issue
experiential learning,