Subject: Re: integrate this
http://ackbar.mindtel.com/users/davew/ihi-00/response-00.htm
with this
http://ackbar.mindtel.com/users/davew/graph-meme/1qaz/graph-memes-00.htm
A major problem in complex emergencies is the representation of the
emergency as it unfolds.
We will employ and manage resources toward the design and development of a perceptualization protocol for enhancing management of operational tasking within complex emergencies.
We are pursuing the development of representational attributes (and their changes) for critical data elements within a complex system, including the creation of a vocabulary for discussing that representation.
We will address the changing mass of information as a geometric, multi-modal entity that makes systemic, reproducible sense to the educated professional.
http://www.medibolt.com/Food.htm
http://www.medibolt.com/Medicine.htm
We will continue to review the literature on complex emergencies and their identifiable critical components.
We will develop the plan for formalizing representational methods.
We will fuse geometric entity meaning with the critical data elements which created it for an enhanced perceptual acuity.
We will map these methods to a realistic humanitarian support problem that seems appropriate to the task, by 30 March 2001.
here is a link to a prototype content on grok it science
it is a draft!!! it is a prototype!!!
http://vader.mindtel.com/gb2k/flash/intro.html
it is the first in a series of 3-5 units....
but look at it as an example....
the other end of the spectrum is
http://www.medibolt.com/gb2k/video/grokbox.mov
with the frames here
http://qube1.mindtel.com/users/mwpedersen/images/movie%20story/
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On January 16 and 17, 2000, the "New Technologies for Disaster and
Development Communication - Conference and Workshops" sponsored by
USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Response will take place at the
Academy for Educational Development, 1825 Connecticut Ave. NW, 8th
floor conference hall, Washington D.C. The New Technologies
Conference, including its accompanying workshops, is aimed at
helping USAID and its partners better understand the new
communications technologies and their relevance to our work. Much
is happening in the field of communications that can facilitate
our outreach to the poor. Costs of radio transmission have come
down dramatically, and digital radio can now reach much of the
globe with clear educational and developmental programming.
Subject: New Technologies for Disaster and Development
Communication - Conference and Workshops
Public information campaigns in such areas of urgent humanitarian
concern as HIV-AIDS, disaster relief and preparedness, health,
food and nutrition are being perfected, with great promise for
helping vulnerable populations address pressing needs.
Development work in education, agriculture, micro-credit, and many
other fields can also benefit from the use of communications
technology. Interactive communications technologies are being
used to defuse civil conflict and buttress democratic polities and
participatory media. And finally, the internet is rapidly
changing the communications environments and lives of us all. For
more information on the conference and workshops, including
registration procedures, please consult the conference web page
http://www.usaid.gov/hum_response/. To get further information, or
to register, contact [MSALAMON@AED.ORG]
davew
Annette L. Sobel, M.D., M.S - 12/6/00 (9:04 AM)
I am the Principal Investigator for a new initiative called MAGIC
(Multiply Assessable Global Informatics Consortium) described below
The objective of this effort is to establish a virtual network for education, training, and
information mining that addresses: emerging and endemic infectious diseases;
public health indicators and infrastructure; and biowatch/sentinel event capabilities worldwide which may be leveraged to support Humanitarian Assistance, Disaster Relief and other operations.
Components/disciplines included within this effort are: preventive medicine; veterinary medicine; phytopathology; marine biology; novel approaches to educational outreach; epidemiology; climatology; GIS; overhead imagery; economic and political instability indicators; complex systems modeling/disease forecasting; data mining; information surety and validation. I am looking for potential international collaborators for this effort
davew
- Sunday, December 31, 2000 at 17:13:58 (EST)
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davew
- Saturday, December 23, 2000 at 14:32:51 (EST)
BIO-SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM
(structured as a two (2) year base effort
plus two (2) one (1) year options) for the
Bio-Surveillance System project.
The goal of this program is to develop a
prototype system for protecting DOD military and civilian
personnel from bio-warfare attack.
It will be capable of detecting a covert release of a biological pathogen by
monitoring non-traditional data sources,
detecting
classifying anomalies
issuing alerts.
This project requires the development and integration of diverse biological modeling
and information systems technologies.
it is encouraged that integrated teams of performers be proposed
RESEARCH NEED: The Bio-Surveillance System project will
dramatically increase DOD's ability to detect a clandestine
biological warfare attack, involving both natural and
engineered pathogens, in time to respond and avoid a large
number of potential casualties.
New information technologies are needed to rapidly detect and identify disease events in the military and general population.
A DARPA Information System Office study was able to demonstrate that it was possible to identify an abnormal health event caused by a terrorist release
of a pathogenic agent several days before traditional health
surveillance methods.
The project mined grocery store, pharmacy, and absentee databases and gained access to healthcare records, after obtaining and receiving voluntary
permission for such access, to find disease indicators as inputs
to abnormal disease detection algorithms.
Long Range Vision: The vision for the
BioSurveillance Project is to develop the information
technology necessary to alert the DOD of any clandestine
bio-agent release within the CONUS, in time for adequate
response.
The envisioned network would gather and integrate
information from non-traditional health information sources
(e.g. school absentee reports, veterinary reports,
over-the-counter pharmacy sales, web page inquiries) and
state-of-the-art bio-sensors for a city with a large DOD
population.
The system would support real-time epidemiological
analysis and autonomous alerts of any anomalous or unusual
health event in the DOD military or civilian population.
Once a possible anomalous event is detected, the system would
provide the capability for a medical expert to quickly analyze
the possible cause and isolate the infected population for
timely treatment.
PROGRAM SCOPE: In order to accomplish
detection, a central focus of this program is the development
of abnormal health detectors and disease models by mining
existing human, agriculture and animal health databases for
indicators of abnormal health conditions.
The development of an emulation capability is necessary to perform sensitivity
analyses on hypothesized events to determine which
indicators are most valuable for bio terrorist releases in both
the military and civilian communities.
The emulation capability would include emulators of would-be detectors to sample the air, water, and food supply as well as detectors that would
sample the genetic composition of bio-pathogens discovered in
sentinel individuals for early recognition of the onset of
disease.
Finally, a prototype bio-surveillance system would be
constructed for a selected city based on previously selected
criteria, and demonstrated in a series of field experiments by
injecting simulated biological event data into the real-time
data streams of the testbed system.
This program does not seek to develop any bio-sensors nor will it seek to develop any
new databases.
Rather it will develop anomaly detection and
attack characterization algorithms based on existing databases
and other information sources.
Its architecture must be adaptable to support future, threats, data bases and sensor
feeds.
TECHNICAL TOPIC AREAS: There are four primary
technology areas that are believed to be instrumental in
achieving program goals.
1. Integrated Bio-Surveillance System Architecture. The system should be
capable of integrating heterogeneous data sources, integrating
bio-sensors and health monitoring data, and the dynamic
management of the monitoring process.
2. Autonomous Detection Algorithms. Development of autonomous anomaly
detection algorithms that will work in conjunction with
human-assisted classification, event identification and attack
characterization algorithms is needed.
3. Disease Models for Autonomous Detection. The early detection of exposure of
discrete segments of the general populace to biological
warfare agents will likely involve the use of higher precision
models of dynamic epidemiology and network models of
sub-population spatial dynamics.
4. Privacy Protection. Data mining of human health databases must conform to appropriate privacy protection regulations.
The program will not affect the clinical care of patients.
Software agents may be employed to perform this function using such methods as k-similar techniques that assure appropriate anonymity.
From ERIC Rasmussen
http://ackbar.mindtel.com/users/davew/ihi-00/response-00.htm
Six general research topics:
* Information for rational logistics support
* Information for personnel security
* Efficient power provisioning
* Effective water delivery
* Environmental sustainability
* Medical support to austere environments
Specifics:
* Logistics:
* TIDES collation and analysis tools
* CWAN Affected Population registration system
* Water-point analysis and GIS summation
* Translation systems (One-Way and MIT)
* Palm wireless technologies
* Bar code tracking
* Harvest to table
* GIS synthesis
* Population, politics, and resources
* Housing
* Light, cheap, sturdy, sustainable
* * Crop alternatives
* * WorldSpace digital radio data broadcasts (Hitachi)
* * Iridium emergency communications from DoD lease agreement
* * INMARSAT Mini-M
* * Vegetable oil air drop technique
* * Family pack tools air drop technique
* * Waterborne transportation
* * Land Cruiser equivalent
* * Canadian Buffalo equivalent
* DARPA-fied refugee camp (we would discuss with Meheba in western
Zambia)
* DARPA-fied country office (we would discuss with Sidibe at
UNICEF-Uganda)
* and both would require internal support in various ways within the
US government.
*
*
* Personnel Security:
* First Watch (developing project with broad applicability here)
* GPS, ID, physiologic monitoring, and "Help" button, all in a working
wristwatch
* TIDES
* Warehouse sensors
* To GIS grid
* Helo support (there are none)
* Communications
* WorldSpace digital radio
* Mini-M INMARSAT
* Iridium
* RIM pager system
*
* Power:
* Flexible photovoltaics
* Wind turbines
* Tread wheel charging
* Flywheels
* Compact batteries
* PV battery chargers
* Fuel cells
* Micro-hydro
* Hand-crank power
* Walking dynamos
* Solar ovens
* PV roof tiles
Much with Bob Nowak and Amory Lovins
*
*
* Water:
* Borehole equipment
* PV pumps
* Zero waste
* Funnels!!! (currently a 30% water loss from a handpump-to-jerrycan
due to a size mismatch. I watched.)
* Pump
* Sensors
* Transmission
* Analysis of the pump status remotely
* Goldblatt Ziplocs (magic water)
* Dry crops (80% of US fresh water use is agricultural)
*
* Environmental sustainability:
* Accept self-interest and work within it
* Natural Capitalism principles from the Rocky Mountain Institute
* Green infrastructure
* Sun, wind, water
* Bio-mimicry
* Non-hydrocarbon fuel economies
* Population restraint
* Waste reduction
* Education
* Bicycles
* HyperCar
* Crop alternatives
* Building material alternatives
With a particular effort at evaluating the psycho-social dynamics of
the
sustainability effort for future reference
Medical support:
Educate women
Clean water
Solar electricity
Solar water pumps
Screens
PrevMed support for hygeine (small and large-scale)
Family planning
Condoms and more
* Translation tools
* International Health Specialist Program (Air Force and Army)
* Finland model for releasing military physicians for work with the
ICRC for a year, then return
* Patient transportation (ATV, golf cart, anything)
* Rapid dx TB test (now here, last month)
* AIDS cure (not here)
* AIDS consequences (therefore)
* StatRef CD medical library
And remote medical consultation support using Peter Buxton's work out
of the
Royal Navy
davew
- Tuesday, December 19, 2000 at 07:50:12 (EST)