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Disease tracking: Another area where OA is a matter of life and death
Glyn Moody, There's No INSTEDD without Open Access, Open..., March 1, 2006. Excerpt:
An interesting story in eWeek.com. Larry Brilliant, newly-appointed head of the Google.org philanthropic foundation, wants to set up a dedicated search engine that will spot incipient disease outbreaks. The planned name is INSTEDD: International Networked System for Total Early Disease Detection - a reference to the fact that it represents an alternative option to just waiting for cataclysmic infections - like pandemics - to happen. According to the article:Brilliant wants to expand an existing web crawler run by the Canadian government. The Global Public Health Intelligence Network monitors about 20,000 Web sites in seven languages, searching for terms that could warn of an outbreak. Comment. Exactly. As I've said before, the more knowledge matters, the more OA to that knowledge matters. |