Crowd-Sourcing A Cure

TED fellow Salvatore Iaconesi is looking for a cure for his brain cancer, and he doesn't care who gives it to him.

On September 10, 2012, the Italian data artist who is passionate about the open-source medium, posted on the website he created, Open Source Cure (artisopensource.net): "I have a brain cancer. Yesterday I went to get my digital medical records: I have to show them to many doctors. Sadly they were in a closed, proprietary format and, thus, I could not open them using my computer, or send them in this format to all the people who could have saved my life... I opened them... so that I could share them with everyone. Just today I have been able to share the data about my health condition with 3 doctors. 2 of them already replied."