2nd GRF One Health Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
November 17, 2013 (All day) - November 20, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Davos Congress Centre Davos
Switzerland

The 2nd Global Risk Forum (GRF) One Health Summit 2013 which will take place from 17 - 20 November 2013 at the Davos Congress Centre in Davos, Switzerland. The Summit will further explore, advance and agree on the need for a global integrative risk management approach for One Health. Furthermore, the conference will identify ways to achieve added value by multi-sectorial and multi-stakeholder cooperation and promote enhanced public-private partnership models for risk-based financing tools. The findings of the conference shall be used to make recommendations on policy and organisational changes and stimulate a more efficient collaboration between stakeholders. Read More »

Wikimania 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 7, 2013 (All day) - August 11, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong
Hong Kong S.A.R., China

Wikimania is the annual international conference of the Wikimedia movement. It's organized by a different local team each year. In 2013 the conference is taking place in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Wikimania allows the community and the general public to learn about and share their experiences with free knowledge initiatives all over the world.

Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong is the ninth annual international conference centred around the Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikinews, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiversity and others). The conference lets Wikimedians from different parts of the world meet and mingle, share experience with each other, and spark new collaborations. Wikimania is also a venue for Wikimedia to meet the educational and cultural sectors to discuss further cooperation, and showcase the latest developments in wiki technology and free culture to the general public.

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How To Lead A Team To Greatness, From The Man Who Sequenced The Human Genome

Mark Micheli | Nextgov | June 5, 2013

From sequencing the human genome to running the largest biomedical research agency in the world, Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, has a record of harnessing complex public institutions to get things done. Read More »

HL7 Developing New Health Care Messaging Standard

Brian T. Horowitz | eWeek | May 20, 2013

A new HL7 standard, called Fast Health Interoperable Resources (FHIR), could allow clinical research organizations to extract data from patients' records. Read More »

Health Datapalooza IV: A Poignant Message From Kym Martin

Jose Ruiz | Health Tech Hatch | June 5, 2013

One of the many interviews we were privileged to produce at Health Datapalooza IV is a remarkable exchange between husband and wife, Ross (@rossmartin), physician, medical informaticist, musician and Kym Martin (@kymlmartin) ‘ a 30 year, 3x cancer survivor’ and certified nutrition & fitness consultant. Read More »

Health Datapalooza IV: A Chat With The CEO Of Health Data Consortium

Jose Ruiz | Health Tech Hatch | June 4, 2013

Dr Pat Salber, co-founder of Health Innovation TV, CEO of HealthTech Hatch and publisher of The Doctor Weighs In chats with Dwayne Spradlin. Read More »

Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
September 17, 2013 (All day) - September 18, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
The International Conference Centre of Geneva (ICCG) Geneva
Switzerland

The Open Knowledge Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2013 Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) will take place in Geneva, Switzerland on 17th -18th September. The theme of this year’s edition will be Open Data – Broad, Deep, Connected.

The world’s leading open data and open knowledge event, OKCon is the latest in an annual series run since 2005. Last year’s installment in Helsinki had more than 1000 participants from over 50 countries and was the largest event of its kind to date. Previous speakers have included inventor of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Hans Rosling of Gapminder, Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive, and Ellen Miller of the Sunlight Foundation. Read More »

Google To Fund, Develop Wireless Networks In Emerging Markets

Amir Efrati | The Wall Street Journal | May 24, 2013

Google Inc. is deep into a multipronged effort to build and help run wireless networks in emerging markets as part of a plan to connect a billion or more new people to the Internet. Read More »

Patent Trolls Are Now Crushing Parts Of The Developer Economy

Haydn Shaughnessy | Forbes | July 4, 2013

News that Boston University is suing Apple AAPL -0.59% over parts for the iPhone and iPad (the component in question is called “highly insulating monocrystalline gallium nitride thin films”), is one more dull thud of the patent lawyers’ dossier on the smartphone scene. [...] Read More »

Ireland Public Health (IPH) Open Conference

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 8, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Croke Park Conference Center Dublin
Ireland

Following the success of the Open Conference held In Belfast last year IPH invites you to attend the 2nd Public Health Open Conference which will take place on Tuesday, 8 October 2013 in Croke Park, Dublin. The programme will be suggested and developed by you, the participants, through online registration and this approach gives you the opportunity to present on a topic of your choice.  There is no cost in attending the Conference.

The aim of the Conference is to provide an open platform to:

  • Showcase multidisciplinary work in public health,
  • Provide opportunities for partnership working...

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