The World Health Organisation is partnering with big tech firms such as IBM and Microsoft, and government health departments to develop a blockchain superhighway of information. The initiative, MiPasa, will use the IBM’s Hyperledger Fabric blockchain, to analyse data and track hotspots worldwide for coronavirus infections, and predict future epidemic trends.
Governments and public health NGOs worldwide are collaborating to source and utilize this data, with big names in ICT and software IBM, Microsoft and Oracle, partnering with WHO, the PRC and Hong Kong’s Health Departments, the Canadian government, the US, EU and Chinese CDC’s (Centres for Disease Control), and the renowned Johns Hopkins University.
Chinese firms have innovated blockchain products to solve problems caused by the crisis, such as Alipay, a blockchain platform to track supply chains for medical supplies and PPE, developed by private developers and the Zhejiang Provincial Health Commission.
MiPasa’s aims are not simply to track regions of infection density and mark them out as “hotspots”, as many data scientists have already, but to go a step further by detecting and predicting infection routes, both mapping the spread of the current pathogen and forecasting future pathways for diseases
Last month, US largest Ethereum miner CoreWeave announced their participation in combating Coronavirus by directing the compute power of over 6,000 GPUs to the Folding at Home project.
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