ComSoc-Delhi Chapter Virtual Distinguished Lecture on "Personal Digital Twins and their role in Epidemics Control"
This VDL on Personal Digital Twins and their role in Epidemics Control is by Dr Roberto Saracco, Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communication Society
Many countries have been overwhelmed by this epidemic. What seemed just few months ago a problem restricted to a specific area has now spread to most regions in the world. This has led to exceptional measures, like the lock down of cities and entire countries and had people wondered how could it be that having progressed so much in knowledge and technology in this last century we are still facing a drama that the world faced several centuries ago? Actually, the plague in the XIV century took much longer to infect the world, and just half of it. Covid-19 has spread everywhere in a matter of 100 days.We have to thank technology for this faster spread, people can move from one place to any other place in the world in a matter of hours. And many people do. 2.7 million people are transported every day by 44,000 flights around the world according to FAA. And this does not take into account the billions that move around by car, public transportation, nor the number of packages, 1.5 million a day just in NYC. We should be able to leverage technology for early awareness on an incipient epidemic, for its monitoring and for its control. This is happening and several organizations are collecting data every day, locally and globally. Yet, it would seem this is not enough. The big problem with the current epidemic, Covid-19 is that on the one hand the latency time, the delay between having been infected and becoming contagious, is 4 days on average, whilst the symptoms appear later, 5 days after having been infected on average. Additionally, there is a significant number of people that do not show any symptoms at all. This clearly makes contagion spread.
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- Date: 08 Oct 2020
- Time: 02:00 PM UTC to 03:30 PM UTC
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- New Delhi, Delhi
- India
- Starts 25 September 2020 09:30 AM UTC
- Ends 06 October 2020 03:30 PM UTC
- No Admission Charge
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Dr. Roberto Saracco of IEEE Communication Society
Biography:
Roberto Saracco fell in love with technology and its implications long time ago. His background is in math and computer science. Until April 2017 he led the EIT Digital Italian Node and then was head of the Industrial Doctoral School of EIT Digital up to September 2018. Previously, up to December 2011 he was the Director of the Telecom Italia Future Centre in Venice, looking at the interplay of technology evolution, economics and society. At the turn of the century he led a World Bank-Infodev project to stimulate entrepreneurship in Latin America.
He is a senior member of IEEE where he leads the Industry Advisory Board within the Future Directions Committee and chairs the Symbiotic Autonomous Systems Initiative. He teaches a Master course on Technology Forecasting and Market impact at the University of Trento.
He has published over 100 papers in journals and magazines and 14 books.
He writes a daily blog with commentary on innovation in various technology and market areas.