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IANS | 20 May, 2019
In a bid to fight disease
outbreaks, Facebook has built new maps that can help its health partners
better understand where people live, how they are moving and whether
they have connectivity.
"All of these maps, when combined with
information from health systems, can improve the way organisations
deliver supplies and respond to outbreaks," Laura McGorman and Alex
Pompe, Data for Good, Facebook, wrote in a blog on Monday.
The
high-resolution population density maps estimate not only the number of
people living within 30-meter grid tiles, but also provide insights on
demographics, including the number of children under five, the number of
women of reproductive age, as well as young and elderly populations, at
high resolutions.
"These maps aren't built using Facebook data
and instead rely on combining the power of machine vision AI with
satellite imagery and census information," McGorman and Pompe said.
"By
combining these publicly and commercially available datasets with
Facebook's AI capabilities, we have created population maps that are 3X
more detailed than any other source," they wrote.
But Facebook used its data on over two billion users to create movement maps.
Public health officials often have challenges predicting where disease outbreaks, like malaria or cholera, will strike.
However,
research has found that pairing health system information with data on
human mobility can yield valuable insights about diseases spread by
human-to-human contact.
"Our movement maps aggregate information
from people who are using Facebook on their mobile phones with location
services enabled, providing real-time snapshots into mobility patterns,"
the social networking giant said.
Because the majority of people
use Facebook on mobile phones that rely on cellular networks, the
social networking giant has also created real-time maps that show health
organisations whether people can be reached with an online message in
advance of activities like vaccination days or bed net distributions.
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