Not to mention a lost opportunity for the world.
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 1:30 PM James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
I have been asking WHO to release COVID19 content (specially videos) under open licenses since since Feb 2020.
I have spoke with Aleksandra Kuzmanovic who has been involved in their collaboration with Facebook and Twitter etc.
They say maybe. But despite a bunch of follow up emails have not seemed too keen. It is really a lost opportunity for both of us :-(
James
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:47 AM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
Some of us sent an email when it was (only apparently) less serious but we got no reply, as far as I know. It was sent by the UG of Washington DC and I contacted WMCH doing that, because they might reach their central office quickly in Geneva if necessary. Changing some licenses was one of the things I hoped to discuss, but in general we knew it was already serious and we were trying to gain some
time.
In the end, WHO changed their attitude only after the last week-end, probably because people started finally to be worried in the USA, but the pandemia should have been declared weeks ago or at least last week, IMHO, when also the data of another "not small" country, that is Spain, started to be quite out of control (if Italy was already not enough after China, Iran and South Korea).
They seem to have taken more slowly than necessary. Let's hope they finally reach out.
Regards. Alessandro
Il giovedì 12 marzo 2020, 16:29:34 CET, Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> ha scritto:
WHO have a great video on COVID-19 ("Coronavius"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1APwq1df6Mw
Now would be a good time for the WMF, local chapters, other affiliates, and individual, to publicly call on them to open licence such material, as I have done, here:
https://twitter.com/pigsonthewing/status/1238124060145483777
[much of their published material is under NC restrictions - https://www.who.int/publishing/copyright/en/ ]
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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