By bluerasberry on 2013-07-23
I went to Boston to present on Friday 19 July at Lisa Gualtieri’s health communications class at Tufts University. It was called “5th Tufts Summer Institute on Digital Strategies for Health Communication“. I gave an overview of the health content on Wikipedia and suggested that anyone with a health message to share could share it […]
Posted in Boston, education, health, non-profit, presentation | Tagged classes, public health
By bluerasberry on 2013-07-18
There is a lot of opportunity to attend cultural events in New York. I suppose that one might say that these events are free, but from another perspective the events are only available to those people who can afford time to attend them, and that means being able to afford to live in a place […]
Posted in New York City | Tagged concert, music
By bluerasberry on 2013-07-07
On Saturday 6 July I went to see Monkey: Journey to the West. I went because I knew that the show was a project of the producers of the band Gorillaz. I knew that the show would be performed in Chinese language and I presumed that it would be musical but I did not know […]
Posted in New York City | Tagged music, theatre
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-29
Someone at Eli Lilly and Company was contacting Wikipedians about a partnership between Lilly and Wikipedia. Some people may not know that Wikipedia is a nonprofit project stewarded by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, and that since its founding it has taken a strong stance against hosting external advertising and against entities with a conflict of […]
Posted in clinical research, health, research, Wikipedia | Tagged Eli Lilly and Company, global health, Wikidata
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-29
A Lilly person was visiting Wikipedia and I wrote this post for their blog. See the original publication on the Clinical Open Innovation site. A Unique View on Improving Communication With Clinical Trial Participants Lane has participated in more than 40 clinical trials as a healthy volunteer, as well as worked on the research team […]
Posted in clinical research, research, rights | Tagged bioethics, clinical trial, informed consent
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-26
On 22 June, our last day together Audrea, Daniel, Matt and I talked about meeting up and chilling. Before meeting up as a group Aubrey had suggested we visit the grave of Jorge Luis Borges, and I was keen on doing this as well. He was at the Cemetery Rois so we agreed to find […]
Posted in Geneva, Open access | Tagged Andrea Zanni, cemetery, Daniel Mietchen, hiking, Matt Senate, mountain
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-23
On 17 July I toured the United Nations Office at Geneva and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum. They are across the street from each other in a district which also hosts the Musée Ariana, the Botanical Garden of Geneva, and seemingly many international organizations set up by people from all countries. The […]
Posted in Geneva, museum, rights | Tagged museum, United Nations
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-20
CERN was a sponsor of OAI8 and they hosted a meetup at the center for science. They arranged for us all to tour some part of CERN on 19 June. My tour was of the facility in which they test the tunnels which comprise the 27km circular track in which the experiments are conducted. I […]
Posted in Geneva, tour | Tagged CERN
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-18
On the night of Saturday 14 June I met with Brian, my Wikipedian friend who just got a job at the WHO. He had been living in Geneva for a while but had not yet come to know all about his job. He was to do something at the WHO like a Wikipedian in Residence, […]
Posted in Geneva, Wikipedia, work | Tagged World Health Organization
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-17
Sunday June 15 I went to the bus station to check out the options for visiting any city in France. Mont Blanc was an option. It was an extra day for me because I arrived for the conference early so that I could be relaxed. The bus station was close to my hostel, and I […]
Posted in France | Tagged coffee, mountain, tourism