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Date: January 29, 2015 at 10:30:59 AM EAT

Subject: [CrisisMappers] Fwd: [betaNYC] Ebola Open Data Jam II @ Civic Hall

From: "'Fumi Yamazaki' via CrisisMappers" <crisismappers@...>

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> From: "Steven Adler" <adler1@...>
> Date: Jan 29, 2015 4:12 PM
> Subject: [betaNYC] Ebola Open Data Jam II @ Civic Hall
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> The tide is turning on Ebola and plans for economic recovery in West Africa begin on February 21st, when we will host another Ebola Open Data Jam at Civic Hall to help West Africa build Open Data Repositories with accurate, high quality Open Data describing their healthcare capabilities in fine detail.  
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> Ebola has infected 20,000 people and claimed 8,000 lives - which is a small fraction of the populations in West Africa.  I do not wish to diminish the loss of human life, but the economic toll of this rather small contagion has been catastrophic.  Sierra Leone has seen its GDP drop from the 2014 forecast of 11.3% to just under 2%, with a negative growth forecast in 2015.  People are not going to markets because they fear human contact and exchanging contaminated currency.  Many western companies have pulled out, leaving a 40% decline in the Wage Economy, and a 30% decline in self-employment.
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> The economic recovery is completely dependent on the restoration of health security, which was never good before the crisis.  Health Security itself is dependent on good healthcare governance and accurate information, which remains severely challenged. 
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> We are meeting in NYC, Los Angeles, Atlanta, London, Freetown, and Monrovia on February 21st in a globally coordinated Open Data Jam to collect, curate and publish datasets, photos, videos, and other rich media which describe the healthcare capabilities of West African nations confronting the Ebola Epidemic. We want to empower these nations with accurate information about their own health capabilities to better govern the availability of resources and build health security.  And we want to provide this information to the West African nations themselves so that they can become masters of their own health data security to prevent future outbreaks from reaching epidemic proportions.
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> If you care about the world we live in and want to make a difference, please donate your time, skill, and energy on the 21st and join us at Civic Hall in NYC.  We need your help.
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> Register to participate here:  http://www.meetup.com/Africa-Open-Data/events/219780626/
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> Best Regards,
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> Steve
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> Motto: "Do First, Think, Do it Again"
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