Open Insulin - Educational Outreach

Purpose related to OpenInsulin or diabetes education in general?

Hi @NiekD and nice to meet you! I heard good things about you :slight_smile:

I’m a generalist and so doing community management on Edgeryders across the different projects - definitely not a health specialist!, but here’s my two cents:

I like the idea of using mixed media to report on any health matters - you can never have enough awareness for sure. Writing a song sounds both hilarious and ingenious. I’m wondering though whether you’re dreaming up a campaign to engage more OpenInsulin supporters in your project or if viceversa, to use the project as a vehicle for education, awareness etc about a widespread condition.

To give you an idea of the many directions outreach could go, Anthony (aka @dfko here on edgeryders) made 3 points here for the stake brought forward by OI in the bigger picture:

  • open sourcing medical research for accelerating progress
  • making insulin more affordable through small scale production
  • citizen science and democratizing participation.. point made by Winnie as well.

You can probably add more, and surely know best where you would be going. Lots of angles though, even for a general purpose, basic language campaign…

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