Building a community of users & contributors
Ping @Woodbinehealth, I think you guys should have a look at this.
One of the challenges of alternative care provision is evolving tools that enable it around the needs of communities that use them, and support those who develop them. I had a conversation with Amir Hannan, a GP working in the UK, about how chronic care requires patients to self-manage for good health outcomes (writeup coming soon). Over 15 years he has built a practice based website to encourage an support his patents gain a better understanding of their health to better enable automy and self-care. You can see the site itself here: www.htmc.co.uk (especially the “Common Problems you can solve yourself section - see menu on the left)”…
After reading both this post and @maymay above I started thinking about something that maybe we could build into the OPENandChange process.
What if the health resource centre you are building could have a distributed presence (and network of contributors) as a compliment to the physical space itself? And how could a community support the developers working on it?
I think cracking this could unlock a lot of community knowledge and support, as well as free up resources for providing health and soccial care services to a currently underserved individuals/ communities. Plus it could care for the (far too few) people with deep tech skills that are dedicating themselves to building tools contributing towards fixing the kinds of community resilience challenges we are attempting to tackle…
Another member of the community who might be interested in this is @Eireann_Leverett who does information security and has experience with tech-related privacy/security issues which is a concern. And not just for high risk users e.g. activists…