Hi all, Many thanks for your contribution.
A number of colleagues have proposed existing sites devoted to analyzing this virus mainly in US and North America. Also donating computers etc. although worthy gestures will not be enough. What I had in mind (and apologies if this looks pedantic) is to have a global digital infrastructure that is available across multiple regions on Cloud. This will ensure that findings and advances are shared, as opposed to the current fragmented and silo like research that is taking place across the world. These communities that we have are amazing in that members share ideas and findings and have created world class solutions often started from Universities and research labs and ended up in open forums. The amount of discipline and collaboration is phenomenal and we should take advantages of these talents to use them for a worthy cause. I agree with some that whatever sentiments we have, we need to be put aside. We don't have the luxury of that. I genuinely believe that we can create a working model in Cloud pretty fast and expand it across the globe as much as we can. Granted the richer countries have deeper pockets and those are the ones that can provide the artefacts for free. On that we have not got a choice and we should not make the solution created geared for one market only. We have to accept that there will be sceptics all around but that is life and we will need to accept that. My point is that if they can build field hospitals in two-three weeks, there is nothing to stop us building something pretty quick, modular, pluggable and self contained. HTH, Dr Mich Talebzadeh LinkedIn * https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw>* http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com *Disclaimer:* Use it at your own risk. Any and all responsibility for any loss, damage or destruction of data or any other property which may arise from relying on this email's technical content is explicitly disclaimed. The author will in no case be liable for any monetary damages arising from such loss, damage or destruction. On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 13:41, Mich Talebzadeh <mich.talebza...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Do you think we can create a global solution in the cloud using > volunteers like us and third party employees. What I have in mind is to > create a comprehensive real time solution to get data from various > countries, universities pushed into a fast database through Kafka and Spark > and used downstream for greater analytics. I am sure likes of Goggle etc. > will provide free storage and likely many vendors will grab the opportunity. > > We can then donate this to WHO or others and we can make it very modular > though microservices etc. > > I hope this does not sound futuristic. > > Regards, > > > Dr Mich Talebzadeh > > > > LinkedIn * > https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw > <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw>* > > > > http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com > > > *Disclaimer:* Use it at your own risk. Any and all responsibility for any > loss, damage or destruction of data or any other property which may arise > from relying on this email's technical content is explicitly disclaimed. > The author will in no case be liable for any monetary damages arising from > such loss, damage or destruction. > > >
