 Outstanding, thank you. Well, it is at the top of the hour. Thanks everyone for joining us. So my name is Rich Block. I chair our Hyperledger Healthcare Special Interest Group. This is an ongoing series of special topic meetings that reflect the activities of the COVID-19 virus pandemic. And so we as a group of global healthcare professionals and technologists are really trying to come together to understand how best we can make use of ourselves as a resource to the community at large. So this is the second of our series and we have a great sort of lineup today, a good agenda. And thanks for everyone for participating. Thanks also for your patience. It's been a very busy few weeks. And in fact, what I'm gonna do is I'm handing over to my vice chair, Erica Beerbauer. She's gonna facilitate today's meeting. I'll continue to be on the call, but I wanna have Erica sort of get more involved in this to take some of the workload off of us because it has been certainly a busy time. So I'll hand over to Erica. Erica, thanks for helping to make this happen. Thanks, Rich. Thanks for introducing the meeting and having me host. And thanks everyone for being here this morning. I hope everyone's doing well. Just a reminder that the meeting's being recorded. And as we always do, we have the hyper ledger anti-trust slide and the Linux Foundation anti-trust policy, which is here. And you can read over it, but basically it's just saying to be a good person. So that is that slide. And then is there anyone on the call that's new that would like to introduce themselves to the group? Yeah, good morning. This is Bilal Saleh. I'm not really new. I used to be part of this group, but then I jumped ship to the telecom group. And we recently had a discussion within the group to join efforts with you to see if we can help out with the COVID-19 pandemic. And Bilal, where are you located? I'm in Tampa, Florida. Great. And which group is it that you're a part of? The telecom group. Oh, the telecom group. Great. Wonderful. My colleague, Vikin, is supposed to be on this call. I don't know if he joined. He's the chair. Yeah. Hi, Bilal. Hi, everyone. This is Vikin. And I'm a chairperson for hyper ledger telecom specialist group. And that's what Bilal shared that we are discussing that how we can use like Delco use cases regarding privacy with respect to COVID. And that's what we want to show that how we can participate as well and in other states as well regarding this COVID issue. Wonderful. Thank you for being here. Hi, Erica. This is Brayesh. I'm joining everyone. I'm sorry. Good morning, everyone. My name is S.I. Shakmaadine. I'm from Walmart based out of Bentonville, Arkansas. Wonderful. Thank you for joining us. Good morning. Archana Sristi from Walmart based in Bentonville, Arkansas. I have another colleague of mine besides Ashma that joined. Arun, you wanted to introduce yourself? Hi, all. This is Arun. I'm from Walmart, India office. And I also associate with hyper ledger India chapter. And we have other participants apart from Walmart from India chapter as well. And COVID-19 is one of the solution which we were discussing in our weekly calls as well. And if time permits, we'll also have some ideas, discussions shared. Well, wonderful. Thank you so much for joining us. Everyone from Walmart, that's great. And where are you guys located? I'm in Arkansas. Arun is in India. Oh, Arizona, India. Thank you. Is there anyone else that would like to introduce themselves? Yeah. Hey, this is Bridgesh. We are a startup based out of Bay Area. And we are focused on blockchain based healthcare solutions. And our solution supports fabric and other dirty clients like Forum and other things. Okay, wonderful. This is Chris Kelly from IntellectEU here in New York. We are a founding member of hyper ledger and looking to get more information on what we can do to create a blockchain solution around a virus. Perfect. Okay, well, thanks everyone. I'm gonna go ahead and just... Hey guys, this is Neil. I'm a developer for Optum slash UnitedHealth Group currently working in Raleigh, North Carolina. Just interested in the applications of blockchain to the healthcare space in general, but also obviously COVID as well. Great, wonderful. Anyone else? Hey, Erica. This is Cam Yerick from Ascension. Just interested. I'm new to hyper ledger and I just wanted to just here to learn. Great. Hi, Cam. Anyone else? Hey Erica, this is Mike McCoy. I don't know if I've been on this call in particular before, but I think I did it before talking about my Thomas Jefferson University Blockchain for Healthcare group. But I wanted to join and become more a part of this group. I'm actually leaving Accenture come on Friday to join the group with Heather Flannery. And I see we have some other people at Consensus Health. So looking to be part of the Rodriguez system more. Yeah, great Mike. Good to have you. Okay, so we have a pretty full agenda. I'm gonna go through the community announcements pretty quickly. So hyper ledger has a mentorship program. I'm just gonna pull it open here. The most important thing to note here, is that the application deadline is April 24th. We're looking for students to participate in this program with 18 projects. And the link is on the agenda and you can read about it here. And if you want to share any announcements offline, you can always use our rockets.com or email the surf. That's just FYI. And without further ado, we'll get on to the special topic today of COVID-19. Really, we're talking about how as a global community, we can help manage this pandemic. We've got three different kind of high level areas here. The solutions don't necessarily need to be tied to these three. These are just kind of thumbnails about how we can slow the progression, manage life saving logistics networks and medical supply chains and serve for more timely and accurate healthcare communications models. We are interested in using blockchain to help battle COVID-19, but if you have an idea or anyone has an idea that doesn't involve blockchain, that's okay too. Such as a traditional database that could be used to come up with solutions. If we're not, we're trying not to limit ourselves necessarily to blockchain or hyperledger, just so that we can kind of open up the scope of what we're talking about. And so we are very, very privileged and excited to have five guest speakers today that are gonna be talking professionally and personal perspective on how their solutions can help with COVID-19. And so our first guest speaker today is Rajesh Awasthi, the founder and CEO of Simblock. And just so you know, he will be presenting at an upcoming HCCIG meeting and do kind of a longer presentation. But for this, we're limiting these presentations to about five minutes with questions after in order to get everyone through in the hour. So Rajesh, would you like to share your screen or would you like to just speak? Yeah, I'll just talk about it. I don't have any slides. So I think we'll do a deeper dive presentation around what we are doing and we can show our product as well later on. I think today I just wanted to kind of give a high level overview of what we are doing and in the context of COVID-19, what our platform can do and what we are offering to the different health systems and public health organizations. So as I mentioned, we are a startup focused around looking at how we can leverage decentralized technology for healthcare area. I think we have a platform called Block Secure. And basically looking at how we can do decentralized wired directory and credentialing. And there are other things that we are working on for the healthcare user space. But especially in the context of COVID-19, a decentralized directory and credentialing I think can be used to kind of accelerate the credentialing and get more of the healthcare volunteers to come in there and help out quickly and across different geographies. So that's where we are offering our platform to various healthcare organizations in US. And if anybody is interested in other part of geographies, we are ready to offer that as well. In US, we are partnered with another CV organization through the actual credentialing and this decentralized credentialing of different healthcare workers can be maintained on this platform and easily shared across all different parties. I think just to give you some perspective, I think in New York itself, if you see there are about 75,000 plus healthcare volunteers who are coming there to help. And there are I think more than 20,000 out of state healthcare volunteers. So there are a large pool of healthcare volunteers who are coming in there. And we need some way to manage that information about those volunteers as well as I think the APEX or the need arises from other states. They may be moving around our other healthcare volunteers may come in there. So this kind of decentralized platform makes it easier for all these health systems to manage that volunteer information and reuse it and collaborate and that as that. So if any of your organizations or you know of if anybody is interested in using this decentralized system built on fabric, we are more than happy to offer. Just one other thing, we support actually multiple utility technologies as well. So we support fabric and quorum, both of these technologies. And this particular thing that we are offering is part of fabric. So I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. Again, when we have a deeper dive session, we can go into the details of what all things we have and other things and explain you a little bit more. I'm happy to answer any questions if anyone has. Thank you, Rajesh. Does anyone have any questions about Simblock and what Rajesh was discussing? Rajesh, the only thing I would mention is something I will probably touch on in my presentation, which is it sounds like your solution could be aligned with an initiative that's called the COVID-19 Credentials Initiative. And that's being spearheaded by Arinam, which Streetcred and then Sovereign behind that. So obviously, I mean, the engine behind it all is indie, but that might be something your enterprise might look into. Oh, okay. What is the name? It's on my slide. It's called the COVID-19 Credentials Initiative. Oh, okay. It's just kicking off, but- Oh, okay. Certainly. So yeah, I think it'll be great to work with them because we have a production-ready solution that anybody can start using right now. So our credentialing solution, I think it's a full-fledged solution and I think some of you might have spoken to and I've seen that it's a full end-to-end solution. So if anything we can do to that initiative to kind of jumpstart that, I'm more than happy to offer that as well. We have, I think, our solution in a way that's why we are offering it. It's ready to be used by organizations right now. Rajesh, what's the URL for your website? It's simblog.com, www.simblog.com. Sim? S-I-M? S-Y-M-B-L-O-C-K. I think the link is there on the agenda as well, which is included in that. So if you can send me a mail. I think if you have any questions or any other things there, we can work together. Great. Yeah, if there was ever a time that we needed a good provider credentialing solution, it would be now with everyone coming across states to help out with the COVID pandemic. Any other questions for Rajesh before we move on? Okay, great. Our next speaker is John Walker, principal at Symantec Clarity. He's gonna give a presentation on how his solution might serve to coordinate COVID-19 emergency services. John, do you want me to share your presentation or do you want to take over? You can share it. It's fine, it's just a couple of slides, that's great. Can you guys see it? Looks good. Great. So good, so thanks everyone. First I wanted to thank Rich and Brian Bellendorf, of course, for bringing this topic to the group. It's obviously timely to say the least. If you could go to the next slide, please. So my input is really based on the first meeting we had, the first special topic meeting we had back in March 20th. It's been a very tumultuous two weeks, but in that time I really just wanted to ponder on how can we, what's a practical implementation of DLT and DID technologies? DLT being obviously fabric and sawtooth, the DIDs, the Aries and Indy initiatives to help fight COVID-19 and support those who are fighting COVID-19. And so the use case I kind of tried to get my head around was how could we help emergency services and kind of field in place workers to have their resources aligned and align those resources, identify those resources, align them with the demand and provide simplified reporting. It certainly seems at least here in the US that that type of coordination does not exist. And so these resources, service providers are scrambling. So it seemed, my answer in my mind was yes, we can do this. The technologies are there for myself. My first question was how can I coordinate and reach out to people to find out if that, even if there's a need for this, how can you get involved without getting in the way? And I think I'm still, I'm just putting that out to the group to say, if there are people who know of organizations that could use these technologies or should use these technologies, let's start a project to get in touch with them. Once we do that, I think it's a matter of building a pretty straightforward use case, right? They're kind of the block attack on projects that many of us already do. So that's really on the demand side or the industry side. On the platform capabilities, it seems clear that DID, Safe Intermediate Identities as supported by Aries and Indy are a very good platform for providing safe and quick intermediate credentialing where Jess was talking about, and I'm sure we have several other people who have offerings in that area. So I think that the keys there are getting aligned with the right people and getting the use cases correct. So you can identify issuers and verifiers and then get a schema that actually reflects the need today. As we talked about the application tier, to support something like this would need a, I think just a simple or as simple as possible inventory solution, which is easy to say and can be hard to do, but something simple to support people in the field to identify again individuals, their resources and some geocoding behind where those things come together. And then finally, the third component is a safe persistence layer and ledgering distributed ledger so that all parties can see both demand and delivery for transactions and provide oversight visibility into what's going on. So that's kind of just tried to put out the rough outline of how we just solve this problem, which again, I think many folks on this call, we all address problems like this all the time, but the timeliness of this and the scope of this are the challenge. So next slide. So I just put together a visual on what something like this might look like. And again, you've got a distributed app that would leverage identity credentials from Aries being the front end to identity blockchain and the actors in that would be your support providers in the oversight or governmental resources as well as on the actual resource supply side identifying the location and itemization or inventory control, right, for resources. So those, I think providing an application which I just called a map and match app that could basically coordinate with Aries on the identity side and then use some, you know, again, existing kind of barcode or QR code identification to do inventory management where you could basically bring consumers who've been, who identify themselves to a resource and the providers on the other side of that and then your map and match app would, you know, would be the middle tier that brings them together. The net reporting coming out of this could be obviously there's some kind of any persistence for the middle tier, but ultimately you could use, obviously you could use a DLT, I think it'd be the best case use a DLT to record verified transactions and demand. And then so all parties could oversee, you know, could dig into that dashboard, do whatever you need to do. So that was really, again, just I tried to, for myself, create a conceptualization, you know, that people could build a use case around and, you know, drive forward, leverage, again, existing technologies that are already out there. Obviously there's a lot of devil in the details as again, I sure most folks realize, but I think creating some kind of an MVP that could be aligned with short-term needs is super important in this situation. Next slide. And then finally there's kind of a recognizing that there's a rush for a lot of good people and a lot of good products to be involved in this initiative. So I think coordinating is also super important. So people aren't duplicating effort and stepping on each other and kind of also getting in the way of the people who are just trying to solve this problem. So an example that I bumped into was this COVID-19 credentials initiative. It is sponsored by Evernom and I'd recommend or ask folks to go in and check it out. I think it really just launched yesterday. It's got, you know, a number of the players who work with Indian Aries already involved. And the other resource I wanted to point out was of course the dashboard page that we have up, that Brian put up for Hyperledger to collect projects. And so just on a personal note, I joined the initiative yesterday and volunteered to work on the coordination and communication track, which I would hope I could bring information back to this group and get alignment there. There are projects people want to pursue from our group as well as just, you know, report out on what's going on. And that's really it. My next steps are to personally or to explore some of the funding capabilities that again have been around our healthcare SIG page and see if those might get aligned with again, this type of solution. Again, a simple MVP kind of approach to delivering something in the next, you know, maybe in the next 90 days, which is very challenging. And that's it. It's just kind of my personal thoughts on this. John, Jim Mason, can I ask a question? Looking at your slide, it's, if I've got it right, the application you're proposing is, I'll quote, a resource matching with demand. It's matching resources and demand. Is that right? That's correct. I mean, it wouldn't have to. The solution could be just, you know, identifying, you could take the supply side, if you will, and say, okay, so where are field deployed testing locations? And what is their capacity, right? Who's, I mean, what's there? Or, you know, for food banks, and we don't know how this may progress, you know, not in this country, but all over the world. So, you know, where are resources and where are they and how much of them are there? The best case scenario is obviously to match that right to the demand. So you don't create situations where, you know, field deployments are being overrun, right? Because they're, you know, things are unmanageable. But that may not always be the case, depending on the situation. So when I look, there's an application conceptually here that has several parts to it, which is fine. Separate from that. If you look at just the resource piece on the upper left there, resources exist for all these things, obviously. And what you're trying to do is say, how do we get access to those? So beyond the application, the first thing that comes to mind for me is it's also about trying to identify the right data sources where these resources already exist and find a way to bring those in. Probably on an ongoing basis so that you can, I'll call it tap capacity, if you will. So if capacity goes up or down or supply goes up or down from the resources that you've brought into the network in effect, you can at any point in time see what that is. But to me is a problem of trying to tap into existing data sources somehow. That's a huge thing, I think, as part of this. Absolutely. And as I thought about this, that's really where I thought, well, the first place is to identify who are the providers, right? Who might be, who are people who would be doing field implementations of testing or food banks or just try to identify people where there are field deployments and talk to them about really building an actual use case, right? And what are their inventory capabilities and how many people do they have? So that was really the first step. I completely agree with you, is not only just tapping into existing data flows but getting aligned with the people who provide those services, right? And make sure that without stepping on, getting in the way of their operation, how can they be supported? Yeah. Yeah, so it's an interesting idea to provide, it's sort of like a directory of directories in my mind, if you will, that tracks local capacity, if you will, in a real-time model. Right, and it's... It's meaningful for sure. It's to provide that what I call centralized, like a sort of a 911 service or a 411 kind of a thing. To say, if you go here, you can probably tap into whatever, hopefully 70, 80% of the capacity or whatever the resources that you're looking for to see where it really exists at one time. And that is very important. So while just speaking from experience of people that are getting hit with this, a lot of times you can't get a test in one location, but if you knew that there was another location available, you could get a test somewhere else. You know what I mean? So those are the kind of things that this kind of a system would make possible, for sure. So it definitely has value, let's put it that way for sure. The question is, how do you come up with it quickly in number one and number two? How do you leverage the existing data sources on a real-time basis to pass it? Exactly. I'm sure our participants from Walmart, which I mean, this is kind of just in time supply chain in some senses and that that is not trivial. It all is even feasible. But there might be some, again, a simple way to at least support field deployed service providers where the inventory may not be that huge, right? And again, the key is getting the use case right and coordinating with the entities, those service providers, make sure you don't get in the way. Yeah, sounds good. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you so much, Sean. That was really interesting, especially now with a lot of our emergency services becoming more remote. It seems like that would be a really good idea to manage the inventory of those resources. Thank you so much for that presentation. That was very interesting. Our next speaker is gonna be Anissu Machokro, CEO and co-founder of MetaDigital. Anissu, would you like to take over or share any slides? Is Anissu on the call today to present? And I'm not seeing Anissu on the call, so we may have lost him. Was he on the call earlier? Do you know or? I don't recall, but I think we should move on to Jayakar and then we'll see if Anissu joins us later. Perfect. Okay, next we have Jayakar Johnson-Joseph, principal of Johnson's MetaCom. I know Jayakar has some slides here. Jayakar, do you want me to pull them up or would you like to take over? Yeah, that's morning, that's noon. What do you think? Let's see. Can I see the slides? I can pull them up if you like. Can I see my slides? Oh, do we do? Okay. Yeah, yeah. So the thing is the biggest problem we know that this coronavirus pandemic is that it is highly mutating. That is, this virus is an RNA virus and the positive sensing. So always it is changing. So there's a big problem in, unless you control that mutation, so this type of pandemic will repeat and it will go in a very disastrous manner. So what we plan to have is that the perfect medical record that it should not be duplicated must be. So in that way, that's the whole project or said this program was assigned next. Can I have the next slide? Yeah, that is this mutation is the biggest problem. So that see here that this coronavirus is that is that the mutation incidence itself is very high that the incidence is one is one. So each virus can mutate into another type where variation can happen. So there is a antigenic drift and antigenic shift that antigenic drift means let's say the immunity when once when a person is getting infected that immunity they occur it will be lost for the next mutant virus. So that just like a cold. So another thing is that the very dangerous thing is that this antigenic shift. So it can mutate with another type of virus and make a new virus. So that is very dangerous in that. So that's why this program was proposed. Next slide please. So here, so what the thing is to see that policy regulators that is United Nations University that is a UNTL that's a lab and that is the WHO see all these that the organization need proper data feedback from the medical records of the infected virus patient because the mutation is very frequent. Always it has to be that the policy itself has to be revised as well as it has to be focused in which area it is mutated because there is a lot of radiation issues. Everything is involved on this mutation. So they have to geographically they have to find out where it is starting and immediate measures what has to be that collaborative measures has to be taken all these things has to be that work out. So that's why that demographic and geographic distribution of the infected case and the change of nature of the disease is the most priority to focus the research objectives to develop that you knew that see what is called there is a molecular level there is a lot of research is going on to compete with that infection. It is not just like as we cannot see that prevent by that see even that is vaccine because vaccine won't work out in this type of virus. So that is a so what we propose is it has to be centralized by that see that according to the protocol of that see United Nations only that all this every nation has to act. If each one will have a different different type of scenario we will last that see there's a lot of coordinated effect to fight with this will be lost. So can I have the next slide? So what? Sorry about that. I'll get back to it. Yeah, yeah. So this is a flow data that is how that data flow is has to be from that the cluster of data that can be captured from the medical records of that see at that village level, that's a district level something just like that. And it has to be forwarded to that United Nations number 300 because there's a organization they are working on that bio molecules also that there is no regulation now that is because so there is a lot of publication is contradictory to each other. There is a so it has to be regulated in a particular way. Then only that is treatment and prevention also will work out in a particular direction. And that's the other thing that you see here that important is we have to we must have the global system that's the observatory that has to that's the absorb that the cosmic radio radiation pattern in that's the high energy radiation pattern in that throughout the globe. And also that is a distribution of that is a that's radioactive that's matter and that you see technically enhance that's radioactive matters that that's distribution also has to be monitored throughout the surface of the globe. Because what I feel is that is a when when there is a substance there's maybe a small that's a minute radiation of the radiating substance in the table if the virus stick on that it will immediately get into mutated to another next slide please. So I don't think that what I want to emphasize is that is a the doctors along with the consult along with that epidemiologist they have to work for this project. So then it has to be that the data has to be with a professional or unique medical record which has unique medical record so far it is not available. See the so now we can start as that see the provisionally unique medical record then it can be merged to that that is a unique medical record so so that see that review of the patient and that clinical manifestation if they if the patient gets a second time in say infection how that moment that that virus changes any urgent necessary to be taken everything can be monitored. So for all these things that the data security is the most important thing unless we operate through hyper ledger see there will be a lot of care there is one data which it is corrected that everything will go in the wrong direction. So because it it connects with a lot of see research organization they are bringing up with vaccine that see the serum test and everything not that the vaccine is not going to be but some other modalities all these things has to be taken care of. Can I have the next one? Yeah so this is the urgent thing what we have to globally we have to establish. So that there is a regular native cloud server that see with hyper ledger program. So that will see capture data from that your mother electronic medical record either it's a real time medical record or the existing record. So it will capture that that one. So this will be sent to that IBM cloud that see that they are having some security provision also that see along with that hyper ledger. Then see when it it has to reach that WHO UN and all that. So this is the thing that see in that IT sector has to be focused that the road that the international to organization that see it is not going to be costly for that see low configuration that say that is a regional native cloud server that see but that that must be that that is needed to connect that this data to the whole global data pipeline. That is the thing urgently needed. So our next slide please. So what I what we recommend is that is a so that is a first that is see unless somebody recommend that see this United Nations are because they see there's a lot of consensus. We have to consensus algorithm we have to develop along with that to various departments of UN. So that has to be promoted from the hyper ledger community that is unless the hyper ledger community promote this project to UN they they will be isolated. They won't they will take in their own way of that implementing this project. So what I feel is that is see we have to promote that is the certain principles that the hyper ledger can resolve that see that the data security that is see and that is a effective transaction of the data everything can be in a secure manner everything will be by hyper ledger only if possible that has to be promoted to that United Nations to get the consensus to define a consensus algorithm with many of the agencies of WHO. So that includes that is see that the international telecommunion that is a WHO that the next foundation I think is already working with that Harvard lab collaboration because they how they are working on that how that the database and this hyper ledger can be collaboratively do that the secured operation by that see world line and everything. So that is a so that is see that has to be collaborative then that see I think that I even is having a very good networking that see that see deploying that is see that is see the foundational level architecture then that is other cloud providers can work on that build up that further application of projects then so consensus we have to work out with the universities how the consensus has to be developed and that see the which are all that nations will cooperate for that which are all that international organizations will cooperate and the labs will cooperate everything has to be work out for that because that consensus algorithm development is the most important thing what I feel is going to the next level the next to that installing that on the cloud server in all villages towns that see districts and county everything so another thing that it see that education itself has to be little and that has to be all the universities has to be concentrated under see partly real time we cannot have everything that is see online courses that we have to make that partly on time courses and that is see and focus on more that is a production of the healthcare professionals because that is see I am speaking from that India India is one of the place that said the doctors patient the issue is very worse that is see that health workers also is not adequate so that is in future because of this covid problem the whole proportionally we have to boost that medical progression then then only that see the unless the health is developed to that community that is it other proportions that is existence is very that they will have a lot of constant so that this has to be that is see boosted up that is for this one of the suggestion from me is that of epidemiology graduations has to be graduates has to be work in parallel with the healthcare consultants for that all these universities has to be that motivated that is only possible with the United Nations University next slide so we we are already working on that unique medical record that is managed and with hyperlegical data security that is in architecture level so we plan to have this that is see merging this one to that one for a permanent other healthcare problems to solve so for that that is see healthcare smart card adaptation program that that will have that see a latency that will reduce a latency period to reduce that see to access the unique medical record so for that the emergency and all so the card will work out that is every time it will get updated their code that is see ID that is that we have a separate this one so on that the on the top of that this we we plan to develop that healthcare real-time healthcare system that that includes a lot of IOT device and I think that's next time this next one that's yeah thank you let's see because I think that see there is there is a lot of collaboration with a lot of who are interested in healthcare they can they can develop independently and integrate with this project and so that will be much useful I think that it will be used for the future thank you are you from healthcare yeah basically I'm a surgeon that I was doing that real-time healthcare research in about 30 years now I am 66 excellent well thank you Jacker I'm just sensitive to time Erica we do want to move on to to vipin we may want to hold questions until after vipin's presentation and then we can maybe loop back around yeah great yeah thank you Jacker that was very interesting next we have vipin rati assistant professor at the University of Delhi and chair of the hyperledger telecom special interest group it's going to give some view from outside the healthcare industry vipin yeah thanks Erica so I want to quickly introduce what we are doing in telecom special interest group with respect to privacy issues so so we can broadly divide how massive invasion of privacy because of actions taken by government and by companies in COVID times for example you can see that how phone data collection by using a location tools and facial recognition with respect to if you see all these things with respect to quarantine so so what we are doing is like we are collecting some data like how different governments and companies are looking into this and that's what I want to share right now so government is following different methods for example Hong Kong government is using a wristband and app but but but the question arises what happened if you use a delete the app so in that in during during quarantine period so department of health and police takes some actions with respect to these things but but users are free to delete the app after 14 days but different governments for example is rise approaches like the in is essential to save lives whereas Thai authorities say that okay we are collecting some data and tracking some something to have but you we will delete a voluntary within 14 days and if you see companies for example Google so we know that Google use traffic patterns in Google Maps right where we can see if there's a jam or not so they're using anonymized location data and that's what they are saying that but they are offering that you can use a kind of anonymized location data with respect to social distancing so so so what we did is we divide everything in two parts for example quarantine and social distancing so quarantine tracking is more more focused by the like more focus area for the government and social distancing is what we are different companies are working on for example Facebook also published this map trackings the movement of its users in response to covid and there's a one interesting company called Unicast Unicast is using location tools for measuring the social distancing also we have ever name also working on this that covid threats that's what they are working on and and you can find a paper as well on it we're a Singapore government using some Bluetooth technology by using the phone and random hash the same way Russia is using official recognition and to check if people break quarantine or not right so so if you see that different federal governments are working in a different place so so if you see that Italy is saying that because of privacy stuff do it like they are they are doing employers against do it yourself approach to collect the data right but the telecom sake is like we are looking in how these how we can use this imidb is like everyone has an imi number with it so that's what we are doing in our telecom that we are putting gsma imidb data to the blockchain so that in the future as well we can give the id numbers to iot devices and mobile devices so that if you see this kind of privacy it will not take place in the future in such a situation so yes i know it's a very less time left so i'm open for the question and if you want more details you can join our telecom sake as well we are discussing more on that thanks thank you vipen does anyone have any questions wonderful so i just wanted to go over really quick show everyone that there is we have an update on funding here first starting with some international funding i'm not going to go through it just in the interest of time but it is here if you want to take a look part of the group is to let everyone know what the funding is for people working on projects also here we have the US status and funding this first one that i think we brought up in the last meeting is now closed so that one is no longer available it's been filled and then we have the NCI we have an NIH opportunity and then UC Davis has a list of funding opportunities kind of a resource to find out what funding is available so those opportunities are available for anyone that is interested you can click here and find out more we have about nine minutes does anyone else want to say anything or i think the Walmart folks maybe wanted to talk a little bit about what they're up to hi erica so this is rich so i'm going to just sort of see if we can maybe get heather from consensus to maybe give us a little bit of a brief sort of summary of the work that they're doing i know we're planning to have them speak a little bit more formally at our next special topic meeting which will be in two weeks but heather did you have a little bit of time to sort of talk oh thank you i was not anticipating that during this session but i appreciate it very much hey everyone this is heather flannery and the CEO of consensus health nice to speak with you all we are working on a couple of different collaborations one of them is a hackathon that we are we're approaching in some unique ways and brian bellendorf very kindly agreed to be one of the judges of the hackathon and we are we are seeking to activate and assemble health care and life sciences mentors to be paired with three different open source communities that will be coming together for the first time and the notion is that the domain experts combined with a set of software engineering experts working with a particular toolset will be co-creating technical assets that can be adopted and put in market which is consensus health's intention with the winning assets and we are intending to have the hackathon activate the global ethereum open source development community which is about 285,000 engineers globally we want to see that community come in full into the hyper ledger bezu community which it has not really happened to date and we see that as a really great opportunity to expand that portion of the hyper ledger world where there's a huge number of technologists that haven't yet started to engage on bezu even though they already work on ethereum on other ethereum clients so we're also bringing in the open mind community which is focused on privacy preserving machine learning and is a close partner close partner of the open source initiative and we are looking at convergence opportunities of advanced privacy preservation zero knowledge cryptography verifiable compute with integrated machine learning and other other privacy preserving machine learning tactics working with hyper ledger bezu and we also have a very particular focus on hyper ledger avalan as well in parallel we're also looking at emphasizing baseline protocol which is another new open source initiative underway and seeking to explore opportunities to develop open source standards as the through IEEE particularly as a mechanism to drive interoperability such that consensus health and our partners are building building on an ethereum stack but in parallel we're working to drive living standards that can be implemented on a range of different different technology stacks roughly in parallel instead of on a delay of two or three years so some of the we are recruiting what we're calling mentors the mentors are not intended to be technologists they're intended to be healthcare and life sciences domain experts that are paired with software engineers from these three open source communities and we are beginning the recruitment of mentors today tomorrow there's going to be a press release and a hackathon coming out very soon and yeah I think I'll stop there and invite any of my consensus health colleagues on the line if you'd like to provide any other quick commentary I will provide the call for mentors in the chat here in just one second and if any of my colleagues have any remarks or Brian I would invite you as well and you will be a judge thank you so much Heather great great to hear about that and maybe we can also get that out to the listserv so that after the meeting there's access to that that program and this is Jonathan so Jonathan Holt on the CMIO for consensus health and just to follow on the way Heather had mentioned I think one thing that is still sort of troubling me with is the select this need for standards and to sort of channel Brian is that the need for both a minimal viable governance model but also this minimal viable semantics especially across different languages and I think so I'm a advisor to the ABMS American Board of Medical Specialties and we've been thinking a lot about how to interoperate there's about 70 different medical boards in the United States just four physicians I should mention and the semantics of representing licensure in each of those states is different so actually trying to get to a common data model quickly is going to be challenging but that's work for it perfect thank you Jonathan and Rich is going to go ahead and close out this call as we're three minutes from the top of the hour thank you Rich sorry Rich this is Bilal can I make just a quick comment here sure yeah there there is a European initiative that was I was invited to join currently their name is Corona Chain but it's going to change the purpose is to establish an open source platform for healthcare providers to enter coronavirus specific data so they crowdsource all the data from around the globe organize it put in a certain ontology and offer it to those institutions the plan is to put on hyperlegion it's going to be an open source and in the future they're going to do some analytics and machine learning on top of the ontology if anybody interested in learning more please I will put my email address on the chat thank you thanks for that Bilal and in fact yeah I would say if you want to get it out on listserv we can get it out to membership with additional details as well as our rocket chat channel and healthcare sick that would be fantastic thanks Bilal so we are just a minute away from the top of the hour I just wanted to say a special thanks to our guest speakers for this hour thank you to Burjesh, John Ajaykar and Vipin and we're going to reschedule an issue for our next cycle for this special event and that is going to be in two weeks our meetings are every other week every other Friday so we'll be convening, reconvening in the same format as a special events meeting in two weeks which is April 17th at 7 o'clock in the morning and again thanks everyone for your participation please make use of our listserv and let's keep communication at a very high level for this very very important time thank you so much and please be safe thank you