During 15th - 17th April 2013, yes it was during Songkarn festival; The gigantic nationwide water festival in Thailand, Opendream attended the 2nd International Workshop on Participatory in Amsterdam, Thailand along with our partner, @klaikong from ChangeFusion. Our mission is to demostrate how could we use DoctorMe, Thai's first personal health care application for iOS and Android, that we collect application's anonymous usage over 6 months as a kickstart platform for digital participatory and behavioural disease surveillance in Thailand and South-East Asia.

On January 27th, 2010, Opendream together with Google.org, DTAC, InSTEDD, ChangeFusion and Bureau of Epidemiology, Ministry of Public Health annouced a collaboration on implementing a GeoChat too more than 800 hospitals nationwide for Influenza-like-illness (ILI) reporting via DTAC's SMS gateway.

We're working harder than last year for making the use of GeoChat into wider target, working groups; From citizen journalist to normal people.

Official press release here.

This is our presentation which is presented in GCamp in Phnom Penh. Interestingly that 60% of topics in GCamp are about using mobile phone on disease surveillance. The conversation with GCampers was great, but need to think more about sustainability of system, incentive of reporters or even how to make this surveillance more everyday-life.