Google Teams with UNICEF to Map Spread of Zika Virus
Google Teams with UNICEF to Map Spread of Zika Virus by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News) Thursday March 3 rd , 2016 at 1:21 PM Voice Of America 1 Share Tech giant Google said Thursday that it is working with the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) to help "map and anticipate" the spread of the Zika virus, which is linked to birth defects in children. "A volunteer team of Google engineers, designers, and data scientists is helping UNICEF build a platform to process data from different sources in order to visualize potential outbreaks," said Google.org director Jacquelline Fuller in a statement posted on the company's blog. "Ultimately, the goal of this open source platform is to identify the risk of Zika transmission for different regions and help UNICEF, governments and NGO’s decide how and where to focus their time and resources." Fuller added that this set of tools, although prototyped for the Zik