Lecture Series: Open Insulin: A Commons-Based, Cooperative Response To A Global Health Crisis
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At a number of community labs around the world including BUGSS in Baltimore, Maryland and Counter Culture Labs in Oakland, California, a group of volunteers are working on open protocols and hardware to produce insulin, and organizational structures and business and governance strategies to distribute it, in hopes of reducing the cost of the drug, improving access to it, and involving more people in the research around it. Insulin, despite being known and used for 100 years, remains out of reach of roughly 50% of the 100 million worldwide who need it. Even in the developed world, particularly the US, high costs prevent many patients from having enough, leading to harms including nerve and kidney damage, cardiovascular disease, amputations, coma, and death.
We will describe the technical and organizational aims of the project and the progress to date, and will invite participation and suggest worthwhile related work to be done concerning insulin, diabetes treatments, decentralized research, and open collaboration across institutional boundaries.
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