ICTs and Gender Mainstreaming special track: Covid chk - Case Study- Innovative application created during emerging COVID-19 pandemic first wave.
MedRet Healthcare Ltd And GeoTechVision Enterprises
Session 248
An AI based ICT solution for staff, communities and other stakeholders to initiate a behavioural change nurturing insights and mindfulness about individual as well as community health status.
This session will highlight the development of an AI based, cloud application developed by a collaboration between a health expert and technology group to offer a ICT based solution to the population of the Caribbean Islands.
The application gives a status of the overall health status built on strategically asked questions and a risk stratification. It also gives a risk estimate of individuals likelihood of having symptoms of Covid-19 infection.
The app has further features of covid related updates and infection rates in the geographical area which is entered by the individual. This can be useful for individuals or employers who have staff travelling to different locations to have a one stop resource that has such information.
We see this digital solution to be very useful for employers, insurance agencies, government agencies and other similar organisations who would like to white label this app to embed additional relevant features for their organisation to be downloaded by their employees.
Valrie Grant is the Managing Director of GeoTechVision, a knowledge services company she
founded and built into an international reliable and quality provider of a range of customized
services and data-driven solutions to governments, NGOs and corporate entities. Valrie is a
lifelong learner, who is passionate about Technology and Entrepreneurship and relishes every
opportunity to mentor women entrepreneurs and young people. Her latest initiative is
EduTechAid which seeks to respond to the inequality of access to digital tools in education and
empower youths. She sits on several national, regional and international Boards and
Committees such as the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC) and the United Nations
Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM): Americas Private Sector Network.
Valrie is a 2020 WE Empower UN Sustainability Development Goals Challenge Awardee.
She holds a BSc. in Geology from the University of West Indies and a MSc. in Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) and the Environment from the Manchester Metropolitan University,
post graduate certification in Business and Entrepreneurship; and notwithstanding a pressing
schedule, is currently finalizing an MBA.
Dr Naila Siddiqui Kamal is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists.
She has been affiliated with the NHS for the past 28 years.
She has several higher education qualifications including Master’s in Medical Education (Imperial College London) and Certificate in patient safety, quality, informatics & leadership (Harvard Medical College Boston).
She has held senior positions such as Associate Dean at London Deanery.
She currently is clinically active, and her sub-specialty is ambulatory gynaecological cancer. She is also Associate Director of Medical Education at her Trust and Senior (Hon) Lecturer at Imperial School of Medicine.
She has inventor status at Imperial for her work in developing an interactive learning resource using disruptive technologies.
She has won several awards including Distinguished Teacher Award and Excellent Teacher Award from Imperial Medical College, Highly commendable award from Health Education England.
She is a frequent speaker on disruptive technologies and their place in futuristic healthcare. She has moderated high level track sessions at World Summit of Information Society (WSIS) 2019 conference in Geneva and facilitated an inaugural session on SMART health ecosystems.
Naila is an entrepreneur and has established the MedRet Academy, an online education hub for clinical workforce for continued professional development.
Chandrahas is an ICT consultant with many years of experience in developing ICT based solutions in many industries.
Having Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and worked for many software development companies in positions like Technology Evangelist, Chief Technology officer and Project Manager for about 22 years.
Developed software solutions in Geographical Information System(GIS), Marketing Automation and Healthcare domains.
Prior to joining a software field, worked as a Professor in an Engineering college for around 9 years.
Currently working as an independent software development consultant and helping clients design, develop and deploy software solutions.
Further details can be sought via email.
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C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
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C2. Information and communication infrastructure
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C3. Access to information and knowledge
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C5. Building confidence and security in use of ICTs
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C6. Enabling environment
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-government
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-business
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-learning
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-health
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-employment
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-science
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C8. Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
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C9. Media
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C10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society
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C11. International and regional cooperation
The application can be used in all the WSIS Action lines ticked through its functionalities.
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Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all
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Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
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Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
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Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
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Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Through its ultimate objective , of facilitating health awareness, healthy living and managing risks in advance as well as having insight into self health status will help in achieving all the goals that are ticked above.
