Hi everyone,
As you might know, this group was recently made public and contains information about the work some of us did to coordinate a Horizon 2020 application writing on care by hackers (see how the idea and mobilization came about).
We have worked, among others, with the Milano city, WeMake space in Milano where @costantino & @zoescope are, LaBRI at University of Bordeaux where @melancon is, and @markomanca’s SCIMPulse foundation in the Netherlands.
If you landed here and this topic interests you, you may go through some of the documentation in this group, and especially read the concept for a summary. Here’s an excerpt:
Based on the Future of care session at LOTE4 (the fourth edition of our annual community
gathering), we propose to envision a system of "care by a community of hackers, armed
with cheap, open source tools". This scenario is not a return to the country doctor: we still get
to enlist sensors and algorithms to alert us if an anomaly comes up. But benefits do not come
from the artifacts, but from the community that builds, programs and deploys them, and that
anybody can be a part of. Imagine a hackerspace for medicine, where doctors, technologists, and
patients come together to design and deploy the system that best serves their local community; it
would be resilient, and it would be trustable, because (a) it would be open source and (b)
everyone is a patient sooner or later, so the doctors and the technologists themselves use what
they build. There are already moves in this direction, like small companies that build medical
sensors for Arduino, and Arduino has decided to fight the Internet of Things, trying to build an
open source version of it (Massimo Banzi’s announcement).
We have very small chances of winning this (up to 3% in my understanding), but if you are working on something related or would like to get involved, tell us. The consortium we put together is committed to looking for other opportunities too, to work on this project anyway, so any backup is needed, and ideas are welcome.
If you are trying to setup a proposal where contents from the application would be useful, talk to us. The proposal is a common resource we have, so you could use at least parts of it.