Biosurveillance 2.0: Big Data, Social Networks, Citizen Science and Collaboration for Public

Health

Jody Ranck, DrPHSr. Digital Health Advisor, PwC

February 25, 2013

Crowdsourcing: Ushahidi

Google Flu Trends Flubreaks

Dengue: Pakistan

Tracking Platforms proliferating

Mappy Health

Citizen Science

Citizen Science/Bio Art

Mobile: Game dynamics, data, crowdsourcing, engagement

Heat Maps: Twitter Sentiment Analysis using Machine Learning

InSTEDD

Big Data/Social Business

Data Journalism: Platforms

Data Journalism

Data Challenges

Open Source Data Analytics

BigML (predictive analytics)

UN Global Pulse:

Fukushima: Citizen science turning point

Fukushima: implications

• Maps triggered engagement, created networks

• Changed information landscape• Co-production of expertise—no more one-way

streets• Online maps act like web applications—

participatory culture of science and tech• Data bricolage, remix—messiness and debates

Future

• How to scale and coordinate data for public good

• Algorithms and improving accuracy, timeliness• PPP model: Global Data Alliance• New data markets and possibilities for new

products/services derived from a data commons

• New publics and new politics of data and health

Organizational Challenges

• Managing Transboundary Crises (Ansell et al) & system of systems

• Data triaging, management, integration, governance

• Beyond traditional resource capacity to more dynamic, combinatorial, flexible ways of organizing

• Resilient systems, trust, bottom-up—beyond command and control epidemiology