The World Data System
International Technology Office

As this year’s International Digital Health Week, November 4 to 10, 2024, (DHW2024) comes to a close, the spotlight turns toward addressing an urgent global challenge at the UN Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP29). This timely overlap provides a unique opportunity to reflect on the role digital health innovations play in shaping not… Read More »Celebrating Digital Health Week at the Dawn of COP29

The Workshop Our workshop on Evaluating Dataset AI Readiness for Data Repositories: Considerations and Approaches held earlier this month was a great success! Harnessing AI for science and society is a key objective for organizations around the world, from international to national to disciplinary scales. Data repositories have an essential role to play in providing… Read More »Evaluating Dataset AI Readiness for Data Repositories – Workshop Review and Pilot Project

The WDS-ITO has hired Alyssa Foote to fill the new Health Data Research Associate role. Alyssa is a graduate of the Master of Data Science program from the University of British Columbia. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Information Science and Computer Science from the University of Victoria. During her master’s, Alyssa… Read More »Welcome Alyssa!