By bluerasberry on 2014-11-19
Siân Evans, Dorothy Howard, Richard Knipel, Jacqueline Mabey, Michael Mandiberg, Laurel Ptak and won an award from Foreign Policy Magazine. Their award ceremony was Monday 17 November and co-hosted by the US Department of State. Richard was unable to attend due to his participating in a board meeting of the Wiki Ed Foundation. I attended […]
Posted in DC, presentation | Tagged conference, Department of State, foreign policy
By bluerasberry on 2014-07-20
On Saturday 19 July I met a physician at the HOPE conference (Hackers on Planet Earth) who does medical device research and policy. Here is his organizational website. We were talking about health records which patients keep for themselves. It seemed to me that his ideas were related to the open notes project, Consumer Reports […]
Posted in health, New York City, presentation, quantified self | Tagged conference, Hackers on Planet Earth
By bluerasberry on 2014-06-03
My mother had been sick for a long time, and especially sick for the past few weeks. About a month ago I talked to her and she told me that she was immediately going for surgery to have her gall bladder removed. She had not told me of problems previously, but upon asking about this, […]
Posted in health, Texas | Tagged conference, death, public health, surgery
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-05
Speakers at the conference who talked about international expansion of research said that China was the next big thing and said that India has an odd and uncertain future as it matures in its international relationships. Right now 95% of people in China are covered by at least some minimal type of health insurance policy. […]
Posted in China, China, clinical research, drug, health | Tagged conference
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-04
I am at the Partnerships in Clinical Trials conference in Vegas. I am attending all the talks I can about outsourcing clinical research, and especially about China. These are notes and industry gossip; no fact checking has gone into what I am typing here but obviously the people who are presenting are speaking as insiders […]
Posted in China, clinical research, research | Tagged conference
By bluerasberry on 2013-07-24
On Sunday 21 July I went to a conference called “reRoute” hosted by the New Economics School and held at New York University. The conference was for what I would call young leaders in the consumer movement, although the attendees would not call themselves that. I am not sure what they call what they are […]
Posted in New York City, non-profit, Open access, presentation, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, consumer rights
By bluerasberry on 2013-05-14
The 2013 conference for the HIV Vaccination Trials Network (HVTN) was from May 7-9 in Washington DC. I attended. My friends from the Seattle CAB Victoria Chinnel and Lisa White came to the event. The big news was that only one week before HVTN 505, a major phase II vaccination trial, had just ended all […]
Posted in clinical research, DC, HIV, research, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, HIV vaccine, HVTN
By bluerasberry on 2013-04-22
Saturday and Sunday April 20-21 I attended the annual conference of Students for Free Culture held at the New York Law School. At the end of the conference there was an organizational meeting in which the board proposed and got approval to change the name of the organization from “Students for Free Culture” to “Free […]
Posted in computer, legal, New York City, non-profit, Open access, research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged conference
By bluerasberry on 2013-03-18
I attended Consumer Assembly, which is the Consumer Federation of America annual conference. Their program gives the agenda of what happened over March 14-15. Elizabeth Warren, friend of the Consumer Movement, was opening speaker and encouraging of all the work we did. I went to sessions on mobile privacy and warning labels and attended the […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, DC, non-profit, presentation, rights, work | Tagged conference, consumer rights
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-25
Wikipedia Day 2013 in New York City was held on Saturday 23 February at the Tisch School of the Performing Arts. So many people I wanted to see were there, including most of Wikimedia NYC, Mike Christie and Jami Mathewson from the Wikipedia education program, Adam Hyland user:Protonk who has helped me in the education […]
Posted in New York City, non-profit, presentation, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, Eric Hellman, Jake Orlowitz, Jami Mathewson, Jennifer Baek, Mike Christie, Tom Sulcer, videography