CAP - INSTEDD - IDtrust

Hi Patrick,

I have been talking to Dr Joan Dzenowagis this week on the telephone. We
plan to meet at her office in WHO later in the summer - probably second
half of August.

I will raise with her the issue of CAP and desease notification; also
the issue of how to link identity/credibility of the source of information.

If I can find out more about INSTEDD in the interim, I will follow up.

I'll keep you informed,

Dr Carol

Patrick Gannon wrote:
>Dr. Carol,
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>Should we be reaching out to INSTEDD (International Networked System for
>Total Early Disease Detection) to inform them about CAP and suggest a pilot
>project where CAP would become part of their notification message process?
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>"Can the Internet help stop pandemics?"
>http://www.lunchoverip.com/2006/03/can_the_interne.html
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>See also:
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>Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN)
>http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/media/nr-rp/2004/2004_gphin-rmispbk_e.html
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>I was not able to find any links to a website for INSTEDD.
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>There was a presentation at the Geneva Security Forum last month by Mike
>Ryan from WHO, but it occurred before I arrived and I did not get to speak
>directly with the WHO rep.  A blog by one of the moderators includes a recap
>of Mike's speech.
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>"Mike Ryan (WHO head of epidemics): The current major epidemic risk is avian
>flu.
>If we look at the history of disasters and wars, most of them are local,
>geographically identified events, where help can arrive from outside. If you
>think of a global pandemic, that's a totally different scale. The
>preparedness/response ot the health impact of a pandemic is one thing; the
>societal preparedness is something we have never truly dealt with at a
>global scale (if large numbers of people can't get to work; if politics
>needs to respond to panic; etc). Ten years ago we believed that having
>information was an advantage; today everybody has the information, the real
>challenge is understanding which piece is relevant, is finding sophisticated
>ways to process it fast: analyze, assess, and respond.
>(BG: see INSTEDD; and WHO is working on an early alert system using mobile
>phones, probably SMS, but many questions are open, such as how to establish
>the credibility of the source)."
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>Elysa, June,
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>The issue of "how to establish the credibility of the source' is one that
>arose at the Workshop on Public Warning we did with ITU in Geneva last
>October.  It appears to me that there is still an open need for an OASIS
>group to work on defining a set of best practices for how to establish a
>secure identity management facility for use with CAP.  Would it be
>appropriate for our Emergency MS SC and our IDtrust MS SC to get together to
>discuss such a project?
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>Patrick Gannon
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