GHF Open Village 2020
Context
The first edition of the Geneva Health Forum Open Village was initially planned during the Geneva Health Forum, from March 23 to 26 at CICG. Due to restrictions imposed by Swiss autorities, the GHF and consequently the Open Village finally took place online from November 16 to 18.
This event was co-organized by Fabio Balli, Mathilde Matringue, Clément le Couédic, and Emmanuel Kellner.
Projects presented were Breathing Games, EchOpen, Aura, E-nable, OpenHumans, Open Source Imaging, Open Source Drug Discovery, and Fuga.
Documentation
The program of the event was released.
All activities were recorded and documented, see the page of each activity below.
A synthesis was released as a poster: Health technology as commons: trustable, affordable, adaptable, translated in 中文, हिंदी, Español, العربية, বাংলা, Français, Pусский, Português. The English version was published as part of the GHF poster book. A slideshow was also realized to give an overview.
Activities
Contribute to access to care
Goal: share your field experience to help us identify needs and challenges to move forward with the projects. Visual mapping, max 60 min
- Access to care: what common priorities?
- Designing fun care to foster peer support
- Adapting paramedic training in isolated areas
- Wearables for the follow-up of epilepsy
- Open-source drug
- Environmental health: fine dust sensing
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Synthesis and bridge to the current situation
- Aging healthily and innovating for disabilities
Fablab: reproducing open hardware
Goal: Discover how to conceive and reproduce hardware. 90-minute technology workshops.
- Combining spirometry and air quality sensing
- Designing ultrasound phantom simulating veins
- Exploring physiology with a connected device
- Conceiving a hand prosthesis with 3D printing
- MRI scanner and other open hardware projects
Mutualizing best practices
Goal: Leaders of open hardware projects put in common their best practices to create a guide. 90-minute discussions.