2013 Cochrane Colloquium - Closing Plenary IV

Plenary IV: Even Better knowledge for better health: The next 20 years

The learning objectives of this plenary session are to ensure participants:

- Explore Web 3.0 and linked data opportunities to make health evidence more accessible to diverse knowledge users.
- Discover new models of community engagement that can better support societies' needs.
- Determine how The Cochrane Collaboration can better support societies' needs.

Changes in technology and societies offer new opportunities to promote evidence informed health decision-making. In this plenary we consider how technologies can advance the accessibility of health evidence, how social entrepreneurship can enable community engagement on health issues and how The Cochrane Collaboration will position itself to make the most of these opportunities to advance our mission.

Speakers:

Chris Mavergames, MLIS
Head of Informatics and Knowledge Management, The Cochrane Collaboration
The Future of Knowledge: #CochraneTech to 2020 (and beyond)

David Bornstein
Author,How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas(Oxford University Press); Journalist, The New York Times
The Cochrane Collaboration as an Engine for Social Innovation: How can Cochrane contributors leverage their work to advance system changes in healthcare?

Mark G. Wilson, M.A., DIP.JOUR., M.PHIL., M.M., FCMI
Chief Executive Officer, The Cochrane Collaboration
From here to there, the next 20 years of The Cochrane Collaboration

[patarchambault]

Groundbreaking talk from Chris Mavergames on the future of the dissemination of knowledge using linked data at Cochrane