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Guides, best practices, templates, and discussions for the WHO open source community
World Health Organization Open Source Communication Channel
❓About this repo
This repository is the first stop and main communication channel for open source communities wishing to contribute to the World Health Organization open source work. Below are links to contributor guidelines, open source product and project roadmaps, and key contributor recognition.
- Please take time to go through this README.md file. It contains information for frequently asked questions on how to work with this Repository
- The
Getting Startedsection below contains specifics on Contributor Profile and Project information
👤 Who may use this?
To request a user be added from this repo:
- Open an issue
- Select the issue: Collaborator on WHO Open Source Projects
- Specify the required detail in the issue and submit it
🤔 When do I use this?
Use this repo when you are interested in getting your organization, company, open source community, or you as an individual involved with WHO open source work. Note that if you already have an existing collaboration or partnership with WHO, you can continue to use those existing communication channels.
⭐️ Why using this?
Use this repository to communicate and collaborate asynchronously--so that any question asked and answered may be easily shared and collaborated on.
The use of this repository draws upon ideas from:
Getting Started
How to sign up
- Please open an issue here with your details to sign up
Contributor profiles
As more WHO work is open sourced, the breadth of contributor profiles will grow. Currently, WHO is seeking collaboration from the following that have an existing orientation on public health:
- UN, INGOs, MNOs, Ministries of Health
- Academic Institutions
- Private Tech Companies
- Open Source Communities
- Expert Individuals (not working on behalf of the above)
Contributor guidelines
- Please follow this Contributor Guideline when planning to collaborate and contribute to this repository.
Product roadmaps
Current projects
Please, stay tuned while we are working on openning first set of repositories for open source collaboration in the scope of the following initiatives:
| Initiative Name | Initiative Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Augmented Public Health Intelligence - AI/ML | portal.who.int/eios | Cognitive computing technologies encompassing machine learning and automated reasoning, natural language processing, speech and object recognition, human-computer interaction, dialog and narrative generation to support public health intelligence discipline |
| Semantic Web of Public Health Data - open APIs | www.epi-brain.com | Semantic network of distributed data for sharing information and knowledge between humans as well as between systems, including public health intelligence systems and those that provide contextual information |
| Active COVID-19 Surveillance Data Access Layer | covid19.who.int | Active and routine public health surveillance for automated health-related data acquisition, information discovery and reconciliation, data harmonisation and centrally accessible storage for descriptive epidemiology |
| Go.Data | github.com/WorldHealthOrganization/godata | Go.Data (contact tracing solution for outbreak response) - public repo and community of practice for sharing technical resources for Go.Data users and contributors. This includes scripts for interacting with Go.Data API in addition to data extraction/cleaning/analysis |
👥 Our team
The following folks are the maintainers for this repository. Please feel free to contact them via an @mention in an issue, or via email for any questions, comments, and/or ideas you may have relating to WHO's Open Source innitiative and this repository:
| Name | Contact | Pic |
|---|---|---|
| Dusan Milovanovic | @milovanovicdusan |  |
More Information
For more information on WHO's open source work, watch this video on YouTube on how WHO uses technology for early detection, verification, and risk assessment of pandemics.
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Guides, best practices, templates, and discussions for the WHO open source community