In April 2013, the Second International Workshop on Participatory Surveillance (IWOPS II) was held in Amsterdam and convened more than 70 individuals from 16 countries, including many of the same participants from IWOPS I, as well as new participants from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), and others working on digital disease surveillance.
IWOPS II considered the problem of sharing survey data among Influenzanet (Europe), Flu Near You (United States), and FluTracking (Australia). The workshop sought to involve individuals working in electronic surveillance of infectious diseases, such as self-reporting symptoms, information exchanges, and surveillance surveys.
The following organizations participated in the workshop:
- Animal et Gestion Intégrée des Risques (Animal and Integrated Risk Management) (France)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (United States)
- Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Agricultural Research for Development) (France)
- ChangeFusion (Thailand)
- Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS)
- Dutch Button Works (Netherlands)
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (United States)
- FluTracking (Australia)
- HealthMap (United States)
- Italian Cooperation of Public Health (Italy)
- Influenzanet (Europe)
- Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI) (Italy)
- Kennissysteem Infectieziekten en Arbeid (KIZA) (Web Portal for Occupational Diseases in the Netherlands)
- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (Netherlands)
- National University of Ireland (Ireland)
- Nederlands Centrum Voor Beroepsziekten (Netherlands Center for Occupational Diseases)
- Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (Netherlands)
- Netherlands Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sport (Netherlands)
- Opendream (Thailand)
- Royal University of Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
- Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS) (Tanzania)
- Sanofi Pasteur (France)
- Studio Takken (Netherlands)
- Unité Propre de Recherche (International Research Unit) (France)
- University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- University of Texas at Austin (United States)
- WHO Cambodia (Cambodia)
An agreement was reached on the concept for a common application programming interface (API) to expose data collected by Influenzanet, Flu Near You, FluTracking, and similar systems that may be launched elsewhere in future.
