"Protecting the public against health threats ranging from the recent Salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter, to an influenza pandemic requires epidemiologists be able to track, investigate and respond to diseases across jurisdictional boundaries in real time. We now have the advanced technology that enables us to do that."

Dr. Robert Rolfs, Director
Division of Disease Control and Prevention
Utah Department of Health

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"It self-organizes and evolves. It creates diversity, not uniformity. That's what makes the world interesting... and that's what makes it work."

Donella Meadows

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I shall make electricity so cheap that only the rich can afford to burn candles.”

Thomas Alva Edison

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No innovation matters more than that which saves lives.”

Avelino J. Cruz, Jr.,
Secretary of National Defense of the Philippines,
on the use of Sahana following disastrous mudslides in 2005

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From the Editor-in-Chief

The editorial theme for this issue of the OSBR is Humanitarian Open Source.

In this issue, authors in Canada (Ottawa and Toronto), Sri Lanka (Columbo), and the United States (Brunswick, Hartford, Indianapolis, New York, Portland, and Seattle), draw upon their experiences to show the role of the open source approach in meeting humanitarian needs in the past, present, and future.

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"The patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things."

Abraham Lincoln

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"The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued."

Thomas Kuhn

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