Hi all, I am not sure if I had sent this call to this list already. Pardon the duplicate if ever. We are still on the lookout for one more EU speaker.
alvin CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST FOR SPEAKERS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IN HEALTHCARE (INCOSSH2008) hosted by the ADVANCED MEDICAL AND DENTAL INSTITUTE Universiti Sains Malaysia Penang, Malaysia November 22-25, 2008 http://bpio.amdi.usm.edu.my/incossh2008 Call released by International Open Source Network ASEAN+3 (www.iosn.net) The International Open Source Network for Southeast Asia with support from InWEnt - Capacity Building International, Germany (www.inwent.org, www.it-inwent.org) and cooperation from AMDI-Universiti Sains Malaysia, is co-organizing an Open Source for Health conference in Penang, Malaysia this November 22 to 25, 2008. The objective of the conference is to bring together stakeholders in the Southeast Asian region and raise the awareness and appreciation for the benefits of the open source methodology as applied in health. This is a call for expressions of interest from developers/implementers in Europe who have vast experience in the development and implementation of open source health applications. The developers/implementers will be given speaking slots in the conference as well as the opportunity to guide participant-developers in the code sprint. Applicants must have good grounding on HL7 and other international health informatics standards and must be willing to serve as resource persons in the CODE SPRINT (where developers are challenged to exchange HL7 messages between their FOSS applications using the Clinical Document architecture (CDA). This grant will cover roundtrip economy airfare, conference registration fees, and allowance for meals outside of conference. Interested parties can email asean3[AT]iosn[DOT]net (cc: francis[DOT]sarmiento3[AT]gmail[DOT]com) until September 30th, 2008 with the following information: 1. Name of open source application/s 2. Name CV of speaker 3. License of the application (from options available at opensource.org) 4. URL of project 5. Proposed title of lecture and short description -- Alvin B. Marcelo, MD (www.alvinmarcelo.com) Director, National Telehealth Center Director for Southeast Asia, International Open Source Network Associate Professor of Surgery (Trauma), University of the Philippines Manila [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
