South Korea’s largest telecommunications company and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are joining forces to develop next-generation quarantine methods.
South Korea’s KT Corporation have announced a three-year research study funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for an ICT-based global epidemic response using Big Data and artificial intelligence
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The $10-million project may just stir uncomfortable thoughts in those who suspect billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates of having a sinister agenda.The surveillance-for-public-health program will certainly raise legitimate concerns about the privacy and safety of personal medical data.
RT reports: KT, the Seongnam-based multinational giant, plans to use its expertise and access to communications data to identify early and predict the spread of infectious diseases. Smartphones could be used, for example, to measure body temperature with a sensor and to collect other symptoms from a user. And geotracking data helps monitor the migration of people and their contacts.
Over the next three years the company wants to develop AI-based algorithms that will turn such raw data into a system that would give an early warning about an unfolding epidemic. KT also wants a computer model to predict how an infection would spread. The cost of the research, called “A Next Generation Surveillance Study for Epidemic Preparedness,” is 12 billion won ($9.7 million) and half of it will be covered by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, KT announced on Sunday.
The collaboration was first envisioned in 2018 and seriously negotiated since April last year, according to Korean media. The Gates’ foundation reportedly showed particular interest in the research because South Korea has high penetration of 5G smartphones and the infrastructure already in place to enable collection of large amounts of data through them.
“The use of mobile technology and sensors, paired with smart data analysis, can help address some of the challenges countries face in timely and effective response to disease outbreaks,” said Andrew Trister, deputy director of the global health program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Bill and Melinda Gates are known as vocal advocates of spending more resources on preparing for outbreaks. Both praised South Korea for its response to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Some however can’t help but see sinister undertones beyond the philanthropy. Just last week an Italian MP delivered a fierce rant in parliament, calling for the arrest of Bill Gates. Sara Cunial accused the billionaire of masterminding “dictatorial control plans on global politics” and using the current situation to further them.
That view admittedly is not widespread, though the hardships of Covid-19 lockdowns seem to fuel all sorts of connect-the-dots sort of thinking. 5G technology has won a place among coronavirus conspiracy theories that have even led to several reported vandalism attacks on mobile towers in the UK.
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That can do all that right now Its called health app. And yes it can do all that and secretly too .And much much more I think the 20 billion hes bribing another African nation with to get them to comply with his programme is more revealing of his growing under handedness and desperation to have the whole microchipped for his profit and power
Bill Gates has gone off the deep end! He has been spouting rediculous statements for the past year!!!