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Giving more people more access to more knowledge with slightly smaller (but open!) data World Health Summit 2015, Lydia Pintscher

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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

English Wikipedia

Spanish Wikipedia

Russian Wikipedia

Farsi Wikipedia

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.