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White House to transfer Ebola funds to combat Zika virus

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is to announce Wednesday it will transfer leftover money from the largely successful fight against Ebola to combat the growing threat of the Zika virus, congressional officials say.

Roughly 75 percent of the $600 million or so would be devoted to the Centers for Disease Control, which is focused on research and development of anti-Zika vaccines, treating those infected with the virus and combating the mosquitoes that spread it. The rest would go to foreign aid accounts to fight the virus overseas.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the matter before the White House announcement.

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Why Computers Won't Replace You Just Yet

 

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Intelligence?

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The "Intelligence?" working group is focused on clarifying what is called "intelligence" in American society today.  This discourse is more about exploring concepts and counterpoints than making statements about what intelligence is.  Five perspectives and aspects of intelligence will be explored in some detail:

1) what does intelligence mean from the neurosciences and cognitive sciences?

 

2) what does the intelligence community consider to be intelligence?

 

3) what does the artificial intelligence community consider to be intelligence?

 

IT and Information Sharing Environments for Community Health Resilience

Information Technology (IT) and Information Sharing Environments (ISEs) are crucial to the evolution of community health resilience.  Most people working to improve community health resilience do not understand the nuances of Information Sharing Environments, and how the rapid shifts in IT, mobile devices, social media, cloud computing, peer to peer parallel processing, smart grids, and the linking of millions of people, mobile devices, computers, and sensors are creating a societal mind, which is transforming community health resilience and the health and human security of Americans.

If you have thoughts on these topics, please comment within this collaboratory thread.

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National Community Health Resilience Workshop

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2011 Community Health Resilience Workshop AGENDA

 

DAY 1

 

8:30-8:50 - Welcome, Introductions and Opening Remarks

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Community Health Resilience

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The mission of the Community Health Resilience Collaboratory is to advance community health resilience.

The Power of the 21st Century Librarian

Michael D. McDonald, Dr.P.H.

It can be argued that libraries have their origins in the swarm behavior of individuals and groups acquiring and sharing cultural artifacts (e.g, pictographs, books) as the fundamental repositories of knowledge within a community and the broader society.  Librarians have played a key role in the founding and differentiation of  America at its origins.  Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, for example, played key roles in deepening and broadening the tradition of knowledge sharing within the early United States. 

 

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David Alberts on the Agility Imperative

Agility and the Collective

21st Century Imperatives

Dr. David S. Alberts

June 2011

 

 

 

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Agility Imperative

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The mission of this working group is discuss the importance of U.S. institutions adopting the attributes of agility, focus, and convergence for more resilient management and governance.

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