Added: Aug 20, 2008
From: TEDtalksDirector
Duration: 26:35
http://www.ted.com TEDPrize winner Larry Brilliant is an epidemiologist who presided over the last case of SmallPox on the planet. He also founded the Seva Foundation, which works to reverse cases of blindness, and co-founded several technology start-ups, including the legendary online community, The Well. He was recently named Executive Director of the Google Foundation. In this talk, he explains in fascinating detail the key behind the successful WHO campaign to eradicate Smallpox, and then unveils his TEDPrize wish: to build a global system that detects each new disease or disaster as it emerges or occurs.
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Rating: 4.78 (45 ratings) Views: 13289' favoriteCount='60 Comments: 16
liloumace Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - oh yes. i love TED. i had not seen it for a while. brilliant people! thanks for sharing it.
dandvd Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - GPHIN is a good idea, but how about leveraging the community of Internet user by simply letting them enter reports about disease outbreaks, on a central GPHIN site?Right now, if I spot a weird case of an apparently unknown disease, I'll report it to a local hospital, then wait... until the hospital goes public with the story (IF they do), and until GPHIN picks up the story from the local newspaper... all this while I have photos of the subject, and could post everything online.
cfhahm Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - dandvd, i had the same initial thought upon hearing this proposal. perhaps, instead of allowing anyone from the internet community to 'freely' report any phenomena that appeared odd and dangerous, GPHIN could design a universally accessable and multi-lingual interface that allows anyone from the internet community to easily specifiy and characterize their specific reports.
cfhahm Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - in other words, it could have simple boxes to click and pictures to guide, as well as uploading capabilities to send in media. this would let GPHIN instantly analyze trends without trenching through unspecified ammature reports.
wzerno Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - at 4:16- does someone laugh??? :s wow
swingbabu2006 Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - i think he should go for india's PM. :-) they will be happy to elect him, instead of italian Sonia.
kalapanasinger Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - Aloha, This is so good..Thanks to you all esp. the ELHS owner. Kate
electrosphere Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - innovative & inspirational~
pepangelist Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - Tremendous achievement
markus310773 Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - Larry is Brilliant!!! If you have money to donate projects like these might be more worthwhile than art galleries or ballet performance. (Considering the proportions of where donations go. A ballet performance might still be better than another yacht...)
cuibono Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - they acting like they are doing only doing good job, but many deseases are manmade and spred by USA like Aids virus
54spiritedwill54 Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - oh yes. i love TED. i had not seen it for a while. brilliant people! thanks for sharing it.
warner003 Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - Excellent!I love their work!
warner003 Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - Yeh don't think the guy laughing didn't realise it wasn't a joke!
ThrottleStuckOpen Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - Why does every interesting thing have to be hijacked by conspiracy theorist nutjobs?
hughdini Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - nooooooooo what was he actualy going to call it ?