Dear All,
I'm happy to share with you that '22nd Cochrane Colloquium', an annual
celebration of Cochrane Collaboration is going to take place in Hyderabad this year.
Cochrane Collaboration is an independent, non-for profit, international organisation. It
helps provide evidence-based, relevant, systematic, up-to-date reviews to people on health
which is widely referred by healthcare-professionals, patients and general public.
Last year in the Colloquium, there were nearly 2000 scientists from around the world in
Quebec where Cochrane and Wikipedia initiated a partnership to populate Wikipedia articles
with evidence from Systematic Reviews. This partnership was initiated on the Wikipedia
front by Dr. James and his team of Wiki Project Med Foundation. As a part of it there has
been appointment of Sydney Poore as a Wikipedian-In-Residence. For more. The Colloquium is
going to happen from 21st - 26th September this year.
A Pre-colloquium Symposium 'Wikipedia and Cochrane' is planned on 21st Sept.
Cochrane Collaboration has offered free entries for upto 50 Wikipedians to this session!
Cochrane has also allotted two slots for Wikpedia Workshops in addition to a Wikipedia
Booth during the colloquium. Details are here:
Wikipedia & Cochrane Symposium
Date: Sunday 21 September 2014 - 09:00 to 17:00
Location: Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH)
Cochrane and Wikipedia: Disseminating Evidence Session
Workshop session 1
Workshop category: Knowledge translation and communicating evidence
Date: Tuesday 23 September 2014 - 13:30 to 15:00
Location: Meeting Room 07 First Floor HICC
Adding evidence to Wikipedia: edit-a-thon
Workshop session 2
Workshop category: Knowledge translation and communicating evidence
Date: Wednesday 24 September 2014 - 07:30 to 08:45
Location: Meeting Room 01- Computer Lab Second Floor HICC
Would love to hear more from you and make the best of this opportunity. Interested folks
please contact me off-list.
regards
Abhijith
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