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Some 2gether Buzz

Malaria is one of the world’s biggest killers – but it is preventable if the right steps are taken. Yesterday I spent 90 minutes talking about the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) with Hoop MD, Sean O’Halloran who has a close family link with the project.

MAP is funded by the Wellcome Trust, and is led by Professor Bob Snow at Oxford University. MAP charts the prevalence of malaria throughout the globe, and Bob’s team eventually want to make real time data available online.

Sean is as excited as I am about the creative potential of social technologies to mash up and interpret the data (through mapping, visualisations, etc.) and has agreed to join us at 2gether and use the platform to frame the enormous challenge of eradicating malaria and perhaps bring some new energy to MAP with a big dose of collaborative thinking. That’s just what 2gether is all about.

Loads more ideas swimming around in my head, in need of a life raft or a solid rock or two of which to grab hold. That’s where you come in, so take this as an open invitation to suggest speakers / themes / topics / formats that you think we ought to bring 2gether in July.

There have been so many thought-provoking events so far this year, but the key is translating all this into action – something with real social impact so that (as Dan McQuillan said to me recently) “we can be more than the sum of our parts.”

Finally, if you haven’t already done so, do join my friend Simon Berry’s campaign to encourage Coca Cola to use their distribution channels to “dedicate one compartment in every 10 crates [of coke] as ‘the life saving’ compartment?” Perhaps that’s something else we can explore at 2gether!

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