Marc Koska at Google Zeitgeist

'Google Zeitgeist 2010: Catalyst' by AlphachimpStudio (Peter Durand)

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Marc spent an inspiring two days at Google Zeitgeist last month in Phoenix, Arizona.

He was invited to participate in an interesting panel discussion entitled, "Catalyst". Full-on discussions took place on: how some leaders are able to set off a chain reaction and how others can bring so much attention to new ideas and initiatives.

Zeitgeist invites the leading thinkers of our time to join together to explore ideas and debates on topics that influence not only the global economy, but also creativity, technology, leadership and human rights.

Here's Marc’s section on the panel:

Zeitgeist-US Catalyst from SafePoint Trust on Vimeo.
http://vimeo.com/15431465

Watch the full version here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Mx7SeEwpM
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We make no apologies for immediately asking you to do one small thing upon reading this blog post.

Your support is invaluable in helping us bring to light the devastating consequences that unsafe injection practices can have.

Please take two minutes out of your day and click here (www.lifesaveraction.org) to see the most recent film Marc has made on the issue of injection safety.

Safe Injection Message

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In it, you'll hear how fatal diseases like HIV and Hepatitis are most often spread by unsafe injections and by the everyday actions of heatlhcare workers in millions of under funded clinics in developing countries.

We would ask you please to watch the film, and then forward the link to as many friends and family as you can.

We know from our work over the past 25 years that awareness prompts action.

We're aiming to reach our target of 10 million lives saved this year, and we need your help to do so.

Thank you!

What is LifeSaver?

LifeSaver is a campaign that is inviting all global AD (auto-disable) syringe manufacturers to include the new LifeSaver logo and message "New Packet. Used Once. Safely Disposed" on all their packaging. LifeSaver represents the procedure given by a health worker and received by a patient, and can be simply adopted, free of charge, by any organisation. The logo is distinctive and easily recognized, and will act as a unique guarantee of a safe injection.

For more information, see www.marckoska.com.

TV News Report on The Climb Tanzania 2010 - today!

Clare Beale, Catherine English, Ginny Simpson and Anna Koska

Meridian ITV recently filmed the 4 girls in their lovely icebreaker outfits, warming up and training on the Ashdown Forest in preparation for their fund-raising trek up Mount Kilimanjaro. Marc and the girls were also interviewed.

The report is expected to be broadcast during today's lunchtime news, 1.30-2.00pm, and again in the evening news, 10.00-10.35pm. [It actually aired on Saturday 10th July]. It's on terrestrial channel 3 if you are in the Meridian region (south east). If you have Sky but are in another part of the UK, you can still get Meridian - it's a little bit fiddly but here are the instructions.

Marc Koska talks at DLD Conference 2010, Munich

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http://video.dld-conference.com/watch/KWl0UQE?t=dld10%2Cpanels&gal=sessions

Click here for a full transcription of this talk

Marc Koska is on stage now. He really (literally) saved millions of lives.
by Peter Bihr at 1/25/2010 4:12:15 PM25 January 2010 16:12:15

MK: This will be lowest tech presentation you will see today.
by is at 1/25/2010 4:12:37 PM25 January 2010 16:12:37

MK: This will be the lowest tech presentation of today. It's about syringes.
by Peter Bihr at 1/25/2010 4:12:48 PM25 January 2010 16:12:48

Misuse of syringes kill more people than malaria
by is at 1/25/2010 4:13:29 PM25 January 2010 16:13:29

Reuse of syringes is a big problem for spread of HIV
by is at 1/25/2010 4:13:46 PM25 January 2010 16:13:46

Some syringes were used more than 25 times. He's going to show some undercover footage.
by Peter Bihr at 1/25/2010 4:14:24 PM25 January 2010 16:14:24

Patients are often given the choice to pick the needle
by is at 1/25/2010 4:15:09 PM25 January 2010 16:15:09

There are cases of syringes are being used over 100 times
by is at 1/25/2010 4:15:57 PM25 January 2010 16:15:57

Syringes are being recycled.
by is at 1/25/2010 4:16:16 PM25 January 2010 16:16:16

Mostly kids in developing countries are doing the recycling which leads to infection
by is edited by Viki Stahl at 1/25/2010 4:16:49 PM25 January 2010 16:16:49

People are misinformed about the problems with old syringes.
by is at 1/25/2010 4:17:27 PM25 January 2010 16:17:27

Misuse is another problem: Kids use the syringes as water pistols. But they sometimes also use them to shoot water into their mouth even if they're still bloody.
by Peter Bihr at 1/25/2010 4:18:03 PM25 January 2010 16:18:03

The solution is a safer product!
by Peter Bihr at 1/25/2010 4:18:40 PM25 January 2010 16:18:40

Marc Koska studied and developed a product that can solve a lot of the problems
by is at 1/25/2010 4:19:54 PM25 January 2010 16:19:54

If people in developing countries can not rely on their doctors to do the right thing, they need to rely in the product to make them safe
by is at 1/25/2010 4:20:39 PM25 January 2010 16:20:39

The syringe is a single use syringe that breaks after used once
by is at 1/25/2010 4:20:56 PM25 January 2010 16:20:56

The goal is to deploy the new syringe as cheaply as the current syringes
by is at 1/25/2010 4:22:15 PM25 January 2010 16:22:15

"everybody can afford Coca Cola, so they can afford a safe injection"
by Peter Bihr at 1/25/2010 4:22:34 PM25 January 2010 16:22:34

They got about 40% of Indian hospitals to use his non-reusable syringes.
by Peter Bihr at 1/25/2010 4:25:26 PM25 January 2010 16:25:26

50% of all injections are unsafe
by is at 1/25/2010 4:26:23 PM25 January 2010 16:26:23

Since the first of these syringes were sold hardly ten years ago, 1.8 billion syringes have been sold, saving about 9 million lives.
by Peter Bihr at 1/25/2010 4:27:29 PM25 January 2010 16:27:29

Marc Koska (Safe Point) invented a syringe that wouldn't work a second time, making it impossible to re-use. And thus saved more than nine million lives. Here's the story behind all this.

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Marc Koska spreads the word in the US

Marc Koska of Star Syringe, Ltd, Winner of 2008 Tech Award, Health
photo: godutchbaby

Marc has just returned from an extremely successful trip to the USA, where he was honoured to be invited to three key events:

• a Know How Talk at the IDEO Cafe, hosted by Dennis Boyle, IDEO senior partner. IDEO is the world renowned Global Design Consultancy based in Palo Alto, CA. Marc's talk was entitled 'Shameless' (how you have to be, to change something in this world). Discussions after the talk focused on his efforts to save lives through syringe design and his charity SafePoint.

• to be a panelist at the ‘Change that Counts: Building Sustainable Social Business’ hosted by Santa Clara University.

• The Tech Awards Gala as a past Laureate; Marc was invited to host a live link sponsored by Polycom, between the newest member of the SafePoint team, Kate Thorman, in India, and Fabio Rosa, a Canadian former fellow Laureate..

Founder of The Safepoint Trust, Marc Koska, featured in Wired Magazine

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December issue of Wired UK

Renown for its articles on new ideas, technology, culture and business, Wired Magazine features a profile on Marc in its UK December 2009 issue.

Interviewed and written by Jack Dyson, the article sums up the last 25 years of Marc’s plight.

This is not the first time that Marc has appeared in Wired. In August 2009, the story of how he came to invent the auto disable syringe and set up The Safepoint Trust is told in an article called "One use only: the broken syringe that saves lives" by Katie Scott. And in the US version of Wired, Marc's invention and Safepoint are mentioned in a November 2009 article called "Gadgets and Ideas to Revolutionize Healthcare" by Aaron Rowe.
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