Martin HÄUER, MLU Wittenberg University
Martin Häuer is the scientific head for open standards (JTC-C1) at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He is deeply engaged in the open-source hardware ecosystem, mainly focusing on project coordination, documentation and governance. Martin has been active in several communities, including Open Source Ecology Germany, that he chaired for three years and where he initiated and led the development of DIN SPEC 3105 and maintained the OKH metadata standard. At the Open Source Imaging Initiative (OSI²) he serves as a board member, contribution manager and administrator of OSI²’s Conformity Assessment Body for open-source hardware and software in the medical imaging sector.
Session
Many public services, including healthcare, significantly depend on proprietary products and infrastructure. This tends to inflate the service costs enormously – to a simply unaffordable degree, especially in the global South. The Open Source Imaging Initiative (OSI²) has developed an MRI scanner – which allows everyone to use, study, share, and improve it – thereby counteracting the MRI oligopoly and opening up processes for clinical certification. This talk will give an overview of the OSI² initiative and outline the concept of democratic, sovereign technology for critical infrastructure.