Breathing Games

Breathing Games is an open access health commons that aims to promote respiratory health through games for health and open source hardware released under copyleft licences.[1][2] Breathing Games leads collaborations with hospitals in Canada, France, Switzerland, Italy and South Korea, and is a member of the Global Alliance against chronic Respiratory Diseases.[3]

Breathing Games
Formation2014 (2014)
Location
Websitehttp://www.breathinggames.net

The commons builds on open collaboration and peer production[4][5] to design and develop education and treatment games and hardware for asthma,[6] cystic fibrosis,[7][8] and COPD.[9]

In the media

Breathing Games is presented through its collaboration with the peer to peer network Sensorica in the documentary A new Economy, directed by Trevor Meier.[10]

In Marc 2019, the Swiss Television reports on an event organized by Breathing Games during the OpenGeneva festival.[11]

Funding

Breathing Games is funded by public research funds (Canadian Institutes of Health Research,[12] French Hospitals Federation, European Union OpenCare)[13] and by private foundations.

Awards

In 2019, Breathing Games was a Citypreneurs finalist, a contest hosted by the City of Seoul and United Nations agencies to find solutions to the global goals.[14]

See also

References
  1. http://www.opensource.org/node/829
  2. http://www.unglobalcompact.org/what-is-gc/participants/84281
  3. https://gard-breathefreely.org/participating-organizations/
  4. http://www.cysticfibrosisjournal.com/article/S1569-1993(16)30478-7/abstract
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-12-19. Retrieved 2017-05-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. http://www.lienmultimedia.com/spip.php?article56713
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-05-01. Retrieved 2017-05-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-07-03. Retrieved 2017-05-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. http://www.multijoueur.ca/2017/03/28/ljsf95/
  10. http://aneweconomy.ca
  11. https://www.rts.ch/play/tv/19h30/video/hackathon-le-jeu-video-au-service-de-la-sante-?id=10308304
  12. http://webapps.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/cfdd/db_search?p_language=E&p_competition=201612PEG
  13. http://opencare.cc/projects/
  14. https://www.citypreneurs.org
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