I could just present a simple introduction to the principles of medicine, contrasting them with the everyday experience of medical practices as they are commonly seen… This could serve the purpose of discussing failures, AND of highlighting our yet poor framing of what we do, at once.
The number of arguments touched may vary quite a bit, but let’s say that starting from being allowed 30 minutes of lecture on, I believe it could start piecing together for the audience. It would be nice to have some time immediately after the lecture buffered for questions, allowing also for relaxed interruptions during the lecture. I usually get the feeling that asking people to wait for other lectures to conclude before asking questions let’s their curiosity drain away…
I should be comfortable with people interacting with me in quite a few languages (English of course, Italian of course, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and I could even venture accepting questions in Dutch although quite uncomfortably =P…) but I am only able to reply fluently and timely in English and Italian …this should be communicated to those attending… or we should identify some volunteer (informal) interpreters
@markomanka so it would seem you will need around an hour, Q&A included. But it will be really your call. I suggest once you have decided on a title and a couple paragraphs to describe your session you upload it as a proposal to the program. Here are all the instructions and questions to help you refine it. Of course you’ll always be able to change it, but it gives people an introduction and a way to talk to you prior to Brussels because we’ll be circulating the link. You can also post or link to resource and readings so we come better prepared.
I could suggest a lecture about the weird ways from fundamental research to “innovation” from a researcher here in ATLAS/CERN from the University of Geneva? He is doing R&D in medical technologies, but the story (I believe) is more interesting for us than the subject of research itself…
@alberto we have special kits plug and play to fast prototype with Arduino, sensors and actuators that’s why it would not be necessary to ask for equipment. for sure It would be nice to involve them for networking on opencare!
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<p><span>my name is Seble Woldeghiorghis and I work for the Department of Social Policies an Health for the Municipality of Milan, I’ve seen the draft of the kick off. Found it perfect. It will be a great opportunity to start this exciting journey.</span></p>
<p><span>I have been impressed by the Master of Networks video. I think it would be very interesting for our department ( Social Policies and Helath) not only for the OpenCare project but also for another project we are heading called “Welfare di tutti” (Welfare of all). The project aims to promote sustainable community welfare experiments that are able to activate responses more effective, efficient and fair and at the same time , to trigger participatory processes that ensure the involvement of the society and citizens, making it more effective , stable and sustainable innovation produced. It would be nice to present you the project and find together the way to improve the tools of participation we will develop and that will be useful also for OpenCare.</span></p>
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I had not noticed this post among the long discussion about the organization of the kick-off.
Does Milano have any data we could use to investigate how the Welfare di tutti initiative is doing? Any conversations among participants, any traces of activities related to this initiative?
Would be great to use this as an ingredient for the MoN4 workshop. There is still time to include this to the workshop.
I’m not sure we can provide useful data for the MoN4 (the kind of data that you mentioned). Sorry for this, probably later…
Anyway we’ll talk about it with Seble and colleagues in the Dept. of Social Policy.
In the next weeks they should launch the new platform of the project Welfare di tutti, that should work also as a collector of conversations among participants.
For sure we’ll bring in Brussels some informations and updates on the running project “Welfare di tutti” and its potential synergies with Opencare.
Ok, guys, thanks for the intense debate. Let me try to summarize: I think we are almost there, but there is one final decision to make.
Wednesday 24th: closed-door consortium meeting
Thursday 25th: LOTE5 begins with a track on failing/unfailing in care. Talks and design workshops go here.
Friday 26th: Master of Networks – Care Edition
Saturday 27th/Sunday 28th: LOTE5 unconference (for those who want to stay on, it's a lot of fun).
The final decision concerns the workshop-shaped stuff. At the moment we have three things:
Manzini: designing community-driven care services. I will speak to Ezio tomorrow, but I guess this can be done in, say 3-4 hours.
WeMake: open hardware for care. Minimum 4 hours
Masters of Networks: minimum one day
Again, it seems we have one thing too many. In principle we could do Manzini and WeMake on Thursday and MON on Friday, but that would not leave a lot of breathing space to the talks. So, we can do two things:
pospone the WeMake seminar a later consortium meeting, and replace it with a talk on open hardware and care.
pospone Masters of Networks to a later consortium meeting, and replace it with a talk on network science, collective intelligence and care.
I would not pospone (a) the talks and (b) Ezio’s workshop, because they are both channel of outreach and onboarding.
I was informed by Nadia that the conference would begin February 25. I have planned accordingly and have other assignments in Stockholm the 24th (and will be arriving in Brussels Wednesdat night). Therefore, I would suggest that we’ll hold any consortium meetings February 25-27.
@Lakomaa and all, your information is correct, but the OpenCare consortium meeting is not to be confused with the LOTE5 conference, which has its own schedule, its own team etc. Our proposal is to integrate our consortium meeting with the conference in order to enhance outreach essentially for free. This is done by weaving the public-facing part of the consortium meeting into the conference. So far, so good.
That leaves the “one day of talking”, the closed-door part of the consortium meeting. We scheduled it the day before the conference because it makes sense for OpenCare – get the consortium on the same page first, then we all go blend with the people who come for LOTE5 (we project 100-200 participants) – and because the whole Edgeryders team will be running around to keep the show going.
Sorry for bluntness, but are you sure you cannot reschedule your Feb 24th commitment? This would really help a lot.
Had it been possible I would have done so. Now I have organized activities in Stockholm before the LOTE5-conference in order to make it possible for me to attend the conference.
I guess the alternative is to hold the OpenCare meeting at another date.
@costantino, is there any action that can piggyback this meeting in preparation for the maker-workshop we are postponing? Even something easy, like collecting hacking challenges in a “suggestion box” during the coffee-breaks? I understand LOTE5 will attract a lot of people…
As I have previously mentioned, it is not possible to change since I’m responsible for a seminar in Stockholm the 24th (scheduled for that date in order for me to be able attend the Brussels conference, which accordng to ER, was to be held March 25-27).
If you think it is appropriate, feel free to hold the OpenCare meeting without me.
Final call – please all consortium partners speak their mind
We are almost there.
There are two ways that we can resolve this.
Go ahead as planned, but take care to fill in @Lakomaa. Closed doors on 24th, talks on 25th, MON 26th. This has the obvious disadvantage of Erik's absence on Day 1. @melancon and I (and whoever has time and wants to attend) will schedule a one- or two hours meeting with Erik on 25th to fill him in.
Move everything one day down. Closed doors on 25th, talks on 26th, MON 27th. This has three disadvantages: (a) Day 3 happens on a Saturday – not a problem for me, but it might be for some people; (b) the Edgeryders team is probably going to be incomplete due to the burden of organising LOTE5; (c) Guy has to leave the MON room at 4 pm on Saturday afternoon.
It’s a very close call between these two, for me. If I have to pick one, I’d say 2, but my priority is that we all participate as much as possible in all activities to maximize mutual learning.
