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"Public health software has traditionally been built from the top down,not from the bottom up," said Stuart Cohen, CEO, Collaborative SoftwareInitiative. "The TriSano(TM) project puts the power into the hands of thepeople who are dealing with infectious disease, bio-terrorism and the spreadof air/water/food-borne illnesses -- all of which pose a significant threat tothe health of our country. They are the ones who have a real stake inimproving this process and with TriSano(TM) they now have influence over howthese life-saving applications are created."
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With TriSano(TM), subject matter experts in the public health communitycollaborate on solutions that meet the requirements of their specific stategovernment and local health programs, fulfilling the promise of protectingtheir citizens, while remaining compliant with mandates from the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention (CDC).
"TriSano(TM) addresses an urgent need of public health departments at thelocal, state and federal levels to fight the spread of infectious disease,"said Dr. Robert Rolfs, MD, State Epidemiologist, State of Utah Department ofHealth. "By hosting the TriSano(TM) open source project, CollaborativeSoftware Initiative is building an open source community that has a sharedinterest in improving citizens' health by collecting and managing data tobetter address infectious disease outbreaks and meet CDC compliancerequirements."
"By offering the code under the widely-used AGPLv3 license, CollaborativeSoftware Initiative gives the user community the assurance of knowing that thecode can be modified, customized and shared in a low-friction way to suittheir very specific project requirements," said Eben Moglen, Director of theSoftware Freedom Law Center and co-author of the user-empowering license."AGPLv3 was written as a roadmap to foster the most open, transparent andcollaborative open source and free software communities possible.Collaborative Software Initiative's use of AGPLv3 for TriSano(TM) is a perfectexample of its value for businesses, governments, and cutting-edge softwaredevelopers."
About Collaborative Software Initiative
Collaborative Software Initiative was founded in 2007 by Stuart Cohen, aveteran IT executive and former chief executive officer at the Open SourceDevelopment Labs. Cohen has partnered with Evan Bauer, financial servicestechnology veteran and former chief technology officer at Credit Suisse, tobring together like-minded companies to build software applications at afraction of the cost of traditional methods. The company introduces amarket-changing process that applies open source methodologies to buildingsoftware collaboratively.
Collaborative Software Initiative engages the power of community to buildproject teams and provides the central project management function fordeveloping software, including development, testing and ongoing support forthe code. The company delivers the software to a broader base of customersunder the open source licensing or Software as a Service (SaaS) models.Media Contacts: East Coa
