Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has donated USDC$4 million to the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia. The goal is to use UNSW’s open-source artificial intelligence platform to send out alerts for pandemic early warning signs to avert worldwide pandemics. Buterin’s Balvi Filantropic Fund made the donation possible. Buterin’s cryptocurrency donation will help EPIWATCH continue to improve. Professor Raina MacIntyre created it as an open-source intelligence (OSINT) tool. The technology looks for early signs of epidemics by monitoring millions of publicly available web things, such as breaking news headlines and social networking platforms. It detects variations in ‘normal’ health-related reports. This is far more efficient than waiting for results from doctors and laboratories. Vitalik Buterin Gifts $4m to Boffins at University of New South Wales | https://t.co/5P61riysJT | #markets pic.twitter.com/J7idKnyUe7 — Haste Coin (@HasteCoin) May 30, 2022 Vitalike Buterin and Crypto Donations “The sooner we can detect new epidemics as they emerge, the faster we can create cures or possibly stop them before they grow large,” Buterin added. “Open data analysis is an excellent alternative to more invasive techniques of surveillance, which are frequently exclusively available to governments and other high-bidders but not to the general public. An open-source and open-access strategy, on the other hand, allows academics from...
