1. healthsites.io - Building a global commons of health facility information with OpenStreetMap
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Building a global commons of health facility information with OpenStreetMap
The number of people affected by humanitarian crises around the world has nearly doubled in the past decade. More than 76 million people needed assistance in 2014, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
In a situation of armed conflict, natural disaster or disease outbreak, knowing the location of the nearest health-care facilities is critical. Having this information can prevent valuable time from being wasted in responding to emergencies on the ground.
Healthsites.io mission is to help supply governments, NGOs, and the private sector with accurate and up-to-date health facility information. Healthsites.io grew into a partnership with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Hospital Federation (IHF), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the Health Care in Danger Project and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
Health facility registers are the building blocks of a well-functioning health information system within a country.
Accurate and up-to-date data provides the basic data that helps drive activities like:
1) service availability planning
2) monitoring and evaluation
3) disaster risk preparedness

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Building a global commons of health facility information with OpenStreetMap
We need health facility data available under an open license ....to keep it updated and improve service delivery.
We need this data to be open and accurate to improve service delivery.
Accurate well maintained open data shows us where we are now and invites collaboration and participation in getting to where we want to be.
It allows institutions to improve service delivery, lower costs, or better allocate health resources.
A key ingredient to this collaboration is open data. Understanding where we are now and what we have done to date it crucial in understanding what to do next. This empirical open collaborative process is the opportunity open data presents. It is the reason why Barack Obama issued an Executive Order — Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information.
Why Open data ?
Improving Government, Empowering Citizens, Creating Opportunity and Solving Public Problems.
Opportunity to share between organizations
Impact measurement of policies
Improved effectiveness of government services
Accountability
Innovation
Improved or new private products and services

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Building a global commons of health facility information with OpenStreetMap
Currently Health facility data in certain countries is..
Inaccurate
Outdated
Duplicated
Incomplete
The problem is that there is no base line currently regarding health facility. In most of the countries we do operate, the health facilities data is:
Inaccurate,
Outdated,
Duplicated,
Incomplete,

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Building a global commons of health facility information with OpenStreetMap
Key question: In case of emergency, where does Ministry of Health or WHO make baseline Health Facility data available for responders ?

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Building a global commons of health facility information with OpenStreetMap
Publication of baseline health facility data under an Open data license
The first step of the Healthsites data life cycle is publication of the Health facility data under the Open Data license (ODbL).
This is where Healthsites and partners like the ICRC are entering into play.
We're building a global commons of health facility information within OpenStreetMap. We're not replacing what national health ministries do. Healthsites is supporting ministries.

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Building a global commons of health facility information with OpenStreetMap
Why open data?
Opportunity to share between organisations
Impact measurement of policies
Improved effectiveness of government services
Transparency and democratic control
Innovation
Improved or new private products and services
NO NEED

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Building a global commons of health facility information with OpenStreetMap
Five stars of open data
A rating system for open data proposed by Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the World Wide Web.
To score the maximum five stars, data must..
(1) be available on the Web under an open licence
(2) be in the form of structured data
(3) be in a non-proprietary file format
(4) use URIs as its identifiers (see also RDF)
(5) include links to other data sources (see linked data)

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Open data attributes
uuid
upstream_id
data_source
data_source_url
raw_source
datetimestamp
created by

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Open data attributes
name
latitude / longitude
physical_address
type
contact_number
ownership
operating_hours
num_doctors
num_nurses
num_beds_fulltime
num_beds_parttime
nature_of_facility
scope_of_service
ancillary_services
activities

13. Healthsites data life cycle
healthsites.io
Building a global commons of health facility information with OpenStreetMap
Healthsites data life cycle
How do we work?
healthsites.io focuses on the long-term continued curation and validation of data for a single domain, and then exchanges and shares data freely with other initiatives. In other words, it imports information from OpenStreetMap, invites users and humanitarian organizations to verify and improve the information, then pushes the information back to the OpenStreetMap project

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healthsites.io
Building a global commons of health facility information with OpenStreetMap
Healthsites data life cycle

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healthsites.io
Building a global commons of health facility information with OpenStreetMap
Healthsites data life cycle

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Building a global commons of health facility information with OpenStreetMap
Local experts and validators contribute to the global commons
Local experts and validators contribute to the global commons.
With an extensive network of delegations and volunteers, the ICRC and the broader Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement can tap into a large crowd of motivated contributors on the ground. Both the Movement and MSF are at the heart of where conflicts and disasters happen, right when they happen. Thus, connecting these local networks and the need to draw up accurate and up-to-date maps with the power of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap community of digital volunteers was a natural path to follow.

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Examples of Openstreetmap volunteer communities in West Africa
@OSM_Ml
@osmsierraleone
@osmghana
@osmguinee
@OSM_Ml
@OSM_Ml

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Building a global commons of health facility information with OpenStreetMap
Healthsites data life cycle

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Building a global commons of health facility information with OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is the best global open geo-data source
Contains Hospital data but mostly just the position and name
Healthsites.io publishes baseline health facility data
The Health cluster shares health facility data such as:
Number of beds
Services
Staff
Status
Contact

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An open baseline of Updated, shared geospatial data
name
latitude / longitude
physical_address
type
contact_number
ownership
operating_hours
num_doctors
num_nurses
num_beds_fulltime
num_beds_parttime
nature_of_facility
scope_of_service
ancillary_services
activities

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Building a global commons of health facility information with OpenStreetMap
Healthsites community is focused on three key things:
Enabling national health agencies and organisations to share and contribute data to OpenStreetMap
Enable collaboration between national health agencies and volunteer communities
Connecting multiple data streams to build higher quality data
Healthsites is targeting the Disaster Preparedness, Resilience and Risk Reduction area of Humanitarian response. We are working to integrate multiple unstructured databases, enhance the reliability of data and foster sharing and collaboration.
The goal of Healthsites.io is to connect organizations on the ground conducting mapping of health facilities. We believe with the right tools and methods, governments, NGOs, and private sector with shared interests in health facilities can be connected to contribute to improving a dataset. By leaning on the methods and infrastructure of OpenStreetMap, health facility mapping can be sustained. Open Street Map does not have the tools or methods for curating a dataset that requires on the ground validation at scale.

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UNICEF - Guidance on the use of Geospatial Data and Technologies in Immunization Programs
‘Bottom-up,participatory mapping approaches should be pursued’
‘Capacity building activities to strengthen trust and absorption of GIS at the programmatic level should be undertaken’

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Global commons of data used more and more by humanitarian organisations
Use case 1: Support for disaster response
The ICRC is using Healthsites as one global secondary data source on the Institution wide Geoportal

24. Distributed to field teams via live maps and internal apps
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Building a global commons of health facility information with OpenStreetMap
Healtsites data is refreshed daily to generate a Healthsites layer in ICRC Geoportal
Distributed to field teams via live maps and internal apps

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Use case 2: Support for immunisation programs
Healthsites is publishing the Health capacity for West Africa as part of Mapping the Risk of International Infectious Disease Spread project.
The tool will focus on Ebola and Marburg viruses initially, although it is intended to scale to other diseases in future.

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HDX - The Humanitarian Data Exchange. Official UN humanitarian data exchange platform.

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Estimate the size of the populations affected by a conflict or disaster situation
The ICRC’s GIS team is working to facilitate the accessibility of population information through a simple web tool called the Population Kiosk.

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Estimate the size of the populations affected by a conflict or disaster situation
The Population Kiosk uses the Global Human Settlements Layer (GHSL)
The GHSL, released in 2016, is making an impact as “the most complete, consistent, global free and open dataset” on built-up areas and population.
Made available through open data portals such as the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (

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The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
Strengthened Space Cooperation for Global Health
August 2017
Recommendation
Promote national open data sharing policies relevant to geo-tagged assets and participatory approaches, when appropriate.
Advance geo-enabling efforts of all assets relevant to health systems strengthening, including information systems.

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