Facebook is mapping demographics, human movement, and network coverage to combat diseases [venturebeat.com]
Helping Organizations Respond to Health Emergencies [newsroom.fb.com]
Facebook used its AI smarts to build detailed disease prevention maps [www.engadget.com]
Facebook Created 3 Types of Maps to Help Nonprofits and Others in the Public Health Sector [www.adweek.com]
Facebook releases a trio of maps to aid with fighting disease outbreaks [techcrunch.com]
Today we're announcing a partnership with over 15 public health organizations to provide Disease Prevention Maps that will help them better prepare & respond to health emergencies globally. https://t.co/l6AaAOOnKy
— Facebook Newsroom (@fbnewsroom) May 20, 2019
“By combining these publicly and commercially available data sets with Facebook’s AI capabilities, we have created population maps that are 3 times more detailed than any other source,” @facebook said. https://t.co/5ODNejINPb
— Emil Protalinski (@EPro) May 20, 2019
FB and Columbia are now publishing additional high-res age/gender demographic estimate rasters for most African countries to Humanitarian Data Exchange plus additional movement and network coverage for selected orgs.
— Michal Migurski (@michalmigurski) May 20, 2019
Words: https://t.co/aXmfJzrhNZ
Data: https://t.co/A0sCAtEyTY pic.twitter.com/dDUH739I9e
Facebook is partnering with public health organisations to provide maps in an effort to prevent, prepare and respond to disease outbreaks https://t.co/DlPVSaBqKC pic.twitter.com/jwnTo6m4tD
— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) May 20, 2019
Facebook launches maps that will help nonprofit orgs. & varsities working in public health get ahead of disease outbreaks and reach vulnerable communities more effectively. https://t.co/fA7uNmoKPh
— Nasidi Adamu Yahaya (@Nasidi_Kura) May 20, 2019
Facebook releases a trio of maps to aid with fighting disease outbreaks: https://t.co/22aKwaOlKe
— Sarah Perez (@sarahintampa) May 20, 2019
Health officials often have challenges predicting where disease outbreaks will strike. However, cutting-edge research has found that pairing health system information with human mobility data can yield valuable insights. @simulacrandrew https://t.co/vmNUHe6slO
— Direct Relief (@DirectRelief) May 20, 2019
Important new work from @Facebook #DataforGood is now available specifically for response to health emergencies: https://t.co/ztRQhirF2F @DirectRelief
— Andrew Schroeder (@simulacrandrew) May 20, 2019
Facebook started a partnership w/ public health organizations to provide Disease Prevention Maps that will help them better prepare health emergencies globally https://t.co/gFaTgDZt7x
— Max Schleiffer (@MaxSchleiffer) May 21, 2019
The maps don't use FB data but combine its AI capabilities w/ satellite imagery and census info
Facebook release new sets of maps - population density, movement and network coverage https://t.co/gES1UaRLJY
— giulio quaggiotto (@gquaggiotto) May 21, 2019
#Facebook used its #AI smarts to build detailed disease prevention maps https://t.co/S7dIrB84XG #MedTech pic.twitter.com/UbMenDF63j
— #AI (@AI__TECH) May 21, 2019
using #AI to help nonprofits and academics in public health! today facebook announced a new initiative to better map the spread of infectious diseases and inform how to respond to outbreaks with aid https://t.co/UoYGEcUEjR
— uzma saeed (@uzmeow) May 20, 2019