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
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