In February 2006 at TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), Dr. Larry Brilliant raised the issue of pandemic diseases and how we can wipe them off the face of the planet. He calls for global cooperation to seeking early detection and early response to all pandemics. He stresses that the only way of dealing with the new diseases - Smallpox, blindness, poliomyelitis, and bird flu etc - is to find them early and kill them before they spread.
His wish is to find a global early-warning system to protect the world from these sicknesses, and his proposed solution to is INSTEDD (International System for Total Early Disease Detection). It is an Internet based web-crawling system that will detect the smallest signs of a potential epidemic spread or suspicious symptoms in every area of the world, in 70 different languages or more! "Instead of a system that is owned by a government, lets find an early detection system that is freely available to anyone in the world in their own language" says Brilliant. "Let's make it transparent, non-governmental, not owned by any single country or company, housed in a neutral country with redundant back up and a different time zone, and a different continent… We’ll grow it as a moral force in the world, finding out those horrible things before anybody knows about them, and sending our response to them.”
Dr. Larry Brilliant won the 2006 TED Prize for this amazing project that will potentially transform the ways in which each country will interact with one another, and will step by step begin to make the world a safer place to live.
Check out his TED presentation for your self here, it’s definitely worth watching. Also you can take part in supporting this project by contacting TED at tedprize@ted.com.
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