[opensourcepharma] Draft Open Ebola Letter

[OLLIARO, Piero Luigi]

Dear All
Please be informed that I’m seeking clarification from those at WHO already looking into open-source options. We have discussed this with Mat and Els, and we agreed that, at this point, it is therefore preferable to postpone sending a letter to others until WHO position is clearer.
I will keep you posted.
Best wishes
Piero

From: opensourcepharma [mailto:opensourcepharma-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Tomasz Sablinski
Sent: 08 August 2014 20:45
To: Matthew Todd
Cc: opensourcepharma at lists.okfn.org
Subject: Re: [opensourcepharma] Draft Open Ebola Letter

Mat,

This looks good; thanks for driving it. I suggest a paragraph - may need to be shortebned/ tweaked - and is a bit controversial:

"Knowledge generation in this area should be driven by a public good, not by a potential financial gain of any one company. Opening to the public the process of knowledge generation will force companies owning certain IP rights to contribute to the discussion, while allowing them to preserve some financial gain in case of success."

Regards,
Tomasz



On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Matthew Todd <mattoddchem at gmail.com<mailto:mattoddchem at gmail.com>> wrote:
Further to Els's very interesting suggestion, here's Draft 1.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10qD0-CLlBKp_6COmMUffZp9mp4NwJGlmcwb5Jjt_wDA/edit?usp=sharing

Edit away or comment, here or on the document itself. It needs to be short! I think given who it's addressed to it needs to be clearly a recommendation of the idea, rather than a direct appeal for any funding. We can do a lot here in advance of any up-front financial commitment, but which may lead to more substantial efforts later that require dollars.
I'd suggest the letter come from a defined group of us, and when published we could ask for wider expressions of support somewhere, from the public.
It feels like we'd have more impact with the support of an Ebola researcher - we are addressing the letter to one of the discoverers of the virus, I understand, so maybe that's the way to do it.

Els - do you have a venue for this, and a way to alert people to it?
Best,

M


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