[kwlug-disc] Flatten The Curve Summit (announcement for online )

[Mikalai Birukou]

Help Flatten The Curve While Learning from Acclaimed Speakers.

New Haven, CT. The online “Flatten The Curve Summit” (https://flattenthecurve.tech) will take place on April 21-23, 2020 and is bringing together leading experts in public health, law, cyber conflict, climate change, collaboration, and digital self-defense. This three-day remote Summit will showcase each of its 21 speakers for one-hour remote sessions where they will share empowering knowledge, strategies, and tools. Attendees will learn how to strengthen their communities, cope with change, and stem the tide of the next crisis.

Sessions will feature speakers from Yale University, Oxford University, McGill University, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Free Software Foundation, and other leading research, non-profit, entrepreneurial, and civic organizations. Attendees will gain a variety of new skills while they are staying home, social distancing, and doing their part to “flatten the curve” of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Summit’s innovative funding model contributes directly to public health and digital rights, with 10% of proceeds  donated to non-profits GNU Health and Fight for the Future. Tickets are “Pay What You Can” with a suggested contribution of $25 USD. Register athttps://flattenthecurve.tech/register

GNU Health is a free and open-source health and hospital information system with a strong focus on public health and social medicine. Luis Falcón, physician and founder of GNU Health, describes the non-profit project as operating “first on the main pillars of a society.”

PrivacySafe, the cybersecurity company hosting the Summit,will present a GNU Health IoT appliance that is being developed specifically for quarantine deployments. This healthcare platform is ideal for mobile testing stations, where it can send results to officials in real-time that are signed and validated. As Falcón says, “PrivacySafe will be a key GNU Health partner in our quest for privacy in healthcare.”

PrivacySafe’s proactive approach to the Summit is applauded by Cory Doctorow, author and MIT Media Lab research affiliate, who states, “This unprecedented crisis is revealing the depth of many of the fracture lines that we have contended over as a society. The only thing worse than having those fractures is doing nothing about them now that we know how grave they are.”

This notion is reinforced by Twila Brase, president and co-founder of Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom, who says, “In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, the Flatten The Curve Summit gives the public and policymakers an opportunity to hear from individuals with expertise in fields surrounding the use of emergency powers who will provide insights
and information to help prevent pandemonium in the midst of a pandemic, now and in the future.”