Swivel Signs On WHO as Official Source Partner

Swivel.com Will Make Leading International Health Organization's Data Available to All

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - August 06, 2007) -

Swivel, a collaborative environment for exploring data, announced that The World Health Organization (WHO) has agreed to be an Official Source Partner. As such, WHO will make its data, including details from the 2007 World Health Report, available on Swivel.com so site visitors can easily access current facts and figures regarding global health at no cost. Visitors can explore this data via Swivel's site, share what they have learned with interested parties via comments, blogs and other web sites and make decisions based on insights gained.

"Health is a globally shared responsibility, and we look forward to making WHO data easily accessible to a wider audience via Swivel's site to ensure better communication of and collaboration regarding critical health information," said Ties Boerma, director, Department of Measurement and Health Information Systems, World Health Organization.

Swivel makes this announcement following a series of successful meetings in Europe, where Swivel Vice President and Chief Data Officer Sara Wood recently spoke on a panel, "Surfing the Future: New Technology for the Next Generation," at the OECD World Forum on "Statistics, Knowledge and Policy" in Istanbul, Turkey. The OECD is an existing Swivel Official Source Partner.

"In an era of political spin and opinion, Swivel is changing the way people explore and collaborate on data," commented Brian Mulloy, Swivel co-founder. "By adding facts and figures from WHO to Swivel.com, we are ensuring that people around the globe can easily access credible worldwide health statistics, engage in discussion and debate and ultimately make better informed decisions based on what they have learned."

About Swivel

Swivel is a powerful tool that makes it easy for people and businesses to understand data and share insights. Along with the currently available free edition for public data, Swivel will also offer a private edition that allows corporate data to be easily explored in a secure, collaborative environment and compared against publicly available global data from Official Sources to enable better decision-making. Currently, Swivel has nine Official Source Partners, and that number is growing. Swivel is a privately held, U.S.-based company funded by Minor Ventures. To explore data, visit www.swivel.com.

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