Building the technologies of outbreak containment and humanitarian action

Lunch over IP by Bruno Giussani | Mar. 6, 2008 (Opinion)

(Running notes from the InSTEDD update breakfast at TED2008)

InSTEDD was imagined as his "wish" by TED Prize 2006 winner Larry Brilliant (speech summary and video), when he said that he wanted to "build a powerful early-warning system" which would make use of the Internet and other technologies to detect disease outbreaks, early signs of famine, environmental degradation, water poisoning, bioterror, etc. His goal was to "have the earliest possible ... Full Story »

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 by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 1, 2008

Informative notes from the TED conference about InSTEDD (innovative Support to Emergencies Diseases and Disasters), an initiative backed by Google.org. Besides reporting on Larry Brilliant and Eric Rasmussen's speeches, the author also provides many helpful links to factual evidence and credible information about this project, which aims to support 'emergent strategic collaboration' through an advanced communication system including SMS, GPS and inflatable satellite links. I would like to hear independent perspectives about this project, but learned quite a bit already from this blog post.

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