Currently, when a natural disaster or disease outbreak occurs there is a rush to establish accurate health care location data that can be used to support people on the ground. This has been demonstrated by events such as the Haiti earthquake and the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. As a result, valuable time is wasted establishing accurate and accessible data. The Global Healthsites Mapping Project is building a global commons of health facility data by making OpenStreetMap useful to the medical community and humanitarian sector. This open data approach invites organisations to share health facility data and collaborate to establish an accessible global baseline of health facility data. Understanding the health capacity of a region is a vital asset in times of emergency and for day to day operational work in the health sector. Maintaining a high quality, global Healthsites dataset cannot be done in isolation. Over the past few years we established partnerships with The MissingMaps, CartONG, The International Committee of the Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières The International Hospital Federation, The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, Kartoza and others to inform both the system design and provide data for the platform.
We have three key milestone goals in the project:
1. Done: Build the initial platform from proof of concept to a working in-production system.
2. Planned: Move from an architecture where we manually maintain a diasporic dataset primarily based on data extracted from OSM to one where OSM itself is the primary. Utilize the Aether platform to automate facility data collection, orchestrate data movement between OSM and healthsites.io, and make it easily accessible in a range of standard formats such as HDX, GIS files, Spreadsheet exports etc.
3. Planned: Implement our vision for establishing a data validation and trust index whereby we assign a quality assessment for the data associated with each health site based on a range of qualitative and quantitative indicators.

In this proposal we are seeking to use the Digital Square funding support to support the development of milestone 2 in our goals. To further our progress towards this our approach will be to focus on three key things:
1. Enabling national health agencies and organisations to share and contribute data to OpenStreetMap
2. Enable collaboration between national health agencies and volunteer communities
3. Connecting multiple data streams to build higher quality data