This event will shed light on the nexus between faith, public policy and gender in relation to COVID-19.
Specialists in each area will reflect on the role of faith-based organizations in shaping the post COVID-19 world, the kinds of innovations that will be used in designing new policies, both national and global, with respect to gender-based analysis of COVID-19.
In the last 20 years, geospatial data (extracted from GPS traces, geo-tagged social media, weather maps, natural disasters, satellites imagery, and epidemic situations) has become wildly ubiquitous. This has led to the rise of spatial data science as a field, which usually refers to extracting meaningful information from geospatial data. However, the lack of scalability and interactivity in state-of-the-art spatial data systems makes it extremely difficult for a data scientist to store, retrieve, explore, analyze, visualize, and learn from large-scale geospatial data.
The World Health Organization (WHO) acknowledged that: “The 2019-nCoV outbreak and response has been accompanied by a massive ‘infodemic’ … that makes it harder for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it”.
In this webinar, experts from QCRI-QCAI will discuss the outcomes of COVID-19: the ‘real’ and physical reality on the ground, and the overload of new information.
The physical outcomes are the numbers of people getting infected, rates of recoveries and deaths, managing hospitals, ICUs and equipment. In turn, the information outcomes are about ‘R0’, flattening the curve, testing strategy, drug repurposing, and dissemination of information on social media.
The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a revolution in the process of developing a preventive vaccine or therapeutic prescription drugs for the virus. As of mid-April 2020, there are over 200 pharmaceutical companies, university research teams, and health organizations testing over 100 vaccine candidates and 120 potential drugs in various stages of clinical/preclinical development.
Journalist and author, Malcolm Gladwell’s theory of success proposes that anyone can learn a skill after 10,000 hours of working on it.
However, business coach, Josh Kaufman, argues that it only takes 20 hours, and that Gladwell’s theory applies to performance at an expert level.
