Google boosts Zika outreach efforts with $1M grant
Funding to UNICEF will help predict outbreaks and raise public awareness about prevention, according to Google’s official blog.
For Google.org, the search is just beginning.
The philanthropic arm of the Internet tech giant has announced a $1 million grant to help UNICEF and other global organizations fight Zika.
A blog post on Thursday by Jacquelline Fuller, director of Google.org, reads in part:
A volunteer team of Google engineers, designers and data scientists is helping UNICEF build a platform to process data from different sources (i.e., weather and travel patterns) in order to visualize potential outbreaks. Ultimately, the goal of this open source platform is to identify the risk of Zika transmission for different regions and help UNICEF, governments and NGO’s decide how and where to focus their time and resources. This set of tools is being prototyped for the Zika response, but will also be applicable to future emergencies. Free download: The Mayo Clinic, Piedmont Healthcare and Nebraska Medicine share best practices in health care internal communications.
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