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The OpenKnowledge team responded to the UK's Grand Challenge Project for information-driven healthcare with a proposal to "completely change the way patients view the management of their healthcare pathways."

Solving the "digital divide" in Africa will not put food in mouths, knowledge in heads, clean water in households, or make healthcare accessible to those who need it most. Leveraging knowledge, skills, and capacities holds out the possibility of doing all of these things. This is what extending knowledge infrastructure is about: building robust and sustainable networks and communities that mobilize a broad range of information practices, institutions, and technologies (old and new) - and put these in the service of locally-defined needs, aspirations, and broad developmental goals. This report summarizes current thinking and action around African knowledge infrastructures.

, the government should be a rule-setting referee to encourage the development of an open software platform on which innovators could write electronic health record applications.