Giving more people more access to more knowledge
with slightly smaller (but open!) data
World Health Summit 2015, Lydia Pintscher
Everyone needs access to knowledge!
½ BillionWikipedia readers/month
nearly 300Wikipedia language editions
nearly 300Wikipedia language editions
114Wikipedia language editions with
an article about Ebola
Japanese Wikipedia
1. open + collaborative
2. multilingual
3. secondary database
1. data source
2. information hub
3. tagging vocabulary
1. open + collaborative
2. multilingual
3. secondary database
This is just the beginning!
read-only open data
read-only open data
Truly open data needs to beeditable and expandableto reach its full potential!
Be bold!
Let the world build things you have not even thought of and health-related
information will spread far beyond our current reach.