Hi everyone, I've tried to put together views expresed so far, but runs into difficulty at some points. The Mission statements are a bit unruly. Needs help.
Vision: Free and Open Source Health Care Software will provide a viable and sustainable alternative in mainstream ICT for positive impact in health outcomes as adjunct to building a global knowledge society. (I'm quite comfortable in not using the word "solidarity". The only reason I considered it was because the UN's Louis-Dominique Ouedraogo of the Joint Inspection Unit used the terms "freedom, solidarity, sustainable development" during the workshop in Tunisia recently titled "Software for development: Are Free/open source software the answer?". Incidently his answer to that question is "yes" based on 2 reports on open source that will be tabled at the UN General Assembly this year. Hope the reports don't don't get derailed :)) Mission: 1. Advocacy role to promote to policy makers the concept of open source in healthcare so as to adopt or give equal opportunity to open source solutions 2. Provide leadership role in refining the FOSS concepts as applied to healthcare to ensure best practices and patient safety are not compromised 3. Make recommendations on Guidelines on Health Information Standards 4. Provides Guidelines for Quality Control on open source software develpment 5. Participate in Human Capacity Building 6. Provide Information Resources to open source health software developers 7. Collaborate in open source health care projects 8. Share technical know-how 9. Contribute (participate?) in project proposals and project management to achieve developing country priorities 10. Assist in helping deliver a visible and lasting impact on the health related MDGs 11. Assists in finding funding for projects to reach critical mass 12. Promotes and helps the formation of development consortia for health care related projects 13. Solicits membership from strategic organizations (help is welcomed to consolidate the mission statements) Principles 1. Promote a globally sustainable approach Open source software development encourages global collaboration. OSHCA will encourage approaches that seek active participation by users, developers, and policy makers from all parts of the world. 2. Stay lightweight and flexible In the spirit of open source where development is user and needs driven, facilitation needs to support highly desirable dynamism, adaptability, and flexibility. This approach seeks to facilitate natural processes that produce unprecedented quality, usability, and cost effectiveness. 3. Be open to diverse opinions and technologies OSHCA is inclusive of all health care-related open source activities. In an open source world, the success of an idea, standard, or product is measured by its practical use. (I have difficulty trying to relate the second to the first statements, as pointed out by Thomas. Any help here?) 4. Ethical Deployment OSHCA's focus is the legal and ethical deployment of reliable and robust open source systems in all areas of health care. This means taking leadership role to ensure standards are maintained and working with legislative and standards bodies to encourage the inclusion of open source principals in their policies. Activities 1. OSHCA Conference 2. Maintain OSHCA web-portal 3. Maintain database of open source health care softwares 4. Maintain database of open source programmers 5. Maintain database of individuals, non-profits and commercial enterprises supporting and maintaining open source health care softwares 6. Form groups on developing guidelines on health information standards, quality control on open source software development, etc. Molly Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/