Idea: Communities Health Network
This model of drone-based-health mapping lends itself to a pretty cool model that would slash costs, drastically, while generating economic rewards for many. (Following sparked from a conversation with gawp in the comments of the previous post.)
Individual franchisees run ops for a particular area. They build (or hire others to) the drones, ensure the information streams are flowing, and seek out clients who want this data (local corporations, governments, that don’t want to risk an epidemic, governments – anyone who owns a public space). That’s their revenue. If they feed their data into ‘larger’ streams (such as regional, state, or national feeds) they get to a share of that revenue as well.
To buy in, they lay down say $10k to start up . That would cover a powerful Mac with a built in web cam, the drones, the software, and they pay a 10% subscription a month to the following services. (Could be just taken from their share of the larger streams.)
- A cloud based storage solution for the data. Hell, open-source it for transparency and to leverage any independent analysis.
- Access to an analytical group of health/epidemic professionals who do the deep science work. They define the baseline, adjust for new systems, or threats etc.
Because this approach incorporates platform logic, embedded both in its information systems and its architecture, this scales up pretty well. There are 273 cities in the United States with populations over 100,000 with potential for several franchisees in each without having to set up a massive hierarchy and plenty of opportunity for reward.
I’m working with a team of technology thinkers/builders that could take this from paper to reality very quickly. That’s true for most of the ideas here. Let’s talk. 😉
-Shlok
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