Name: Open Data for Africa Planning
Start: 2014-11-07T11:30:00-05:00
End: 2014-11-07T13:00:00-05:00
Location: Virtual and Skype

Hear the amazing work of the 80 people who came to the Ebola Open Data Jam in New York on October 18. The teams will describe work done and work plans for the future for:

• Summary of Ebola insights and experts (Rich Robbins and Jeanne Holm) (note working notes at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CSfd7R8TWAjSG9yYrKMjVbMnxjNChkQGjOEW5yyVt-Q/edit)

• Improving Ebola and related maps (Eric)

• Gathering and cataloging data (http://eboladata.org) (Andrew Hoppin)

• Visualization of Ebola data (Kofi Annan)

• Contact tracing of Ebola patients to mitigate spread of the outbreaks (Salman Baset)

• How mobile phones and apps can be used to inform people on the ground and allow reporting and information sharing (Michael Perrone)

• Next steps (Steve Adler)

After the end of the meeting, Eric will provide a tutorial on how to help build maps with Open Street Map

Jeanne Holm

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