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Solution Overview

Solution Name:

Contact Tracing (myOutbreak.health)

One-line solution summary:

WW personalized contact tracing app (auto data expire) that users can trust with "opt in" to protect their community

Pitch your solution.

Contact tracing app that allows the populous to keep track of critical information privately and securely. Information can then be anonymized and shared (at user’s discretion with explicit approval) when showing symptoms, signs of infection, or confirmed infection. Release of information is determined by individual, including what to share and what remains private. Data will auto-expire when determined or after contraction risk expires.

There are different levels of captured information:
1. My direct interactions (what I did, places visited, and times)
2. My micro-network (family and connected individuals)
3. Composite networks (connecting micro-networks into ever-larger networks where contact density can be analyzed granularity (e.g. neighborhood, street)

Additionally, a consolidated place where:
• Medical professionals can send out questionnaires or surveys soliciting communities to understand and track infection
• Police, ambulance and supporting services can track their connections with areas, people, events
• Act as an aggregation point for all VETTED publicly released information
• Notifying people within concentrated areas to comply with self-zoning

What specific problem are you solving?

For every country, community and individual worldwide.

Pandemics aren’t secret but many are treating the coronavirus as a private affair. Either through privacy concerns or lack of how to communicate, the lack of sharing is causing hotspots, uncontrolled spreading and death. To gain control, we must know where it is, how it got there, and how best to respond.

The current practices will never get ahead of the curve as it is a reactive measure once the virus outbreak exceeds the number of personnel who can do contact tracing. A proactive measure that uses the power of the people and a sense of community and national pride shown in the times of extreme need is required.

One of the biggest issues is the availability of micro information as it relates to each member of the community. News information is always at a macro level. People will act differently when they know their area, street, personal contacts, or points that they visit have confirmed cases of the virus. Giving control to the user to determine the amount of personal data released and not hoarding their information past needed dates will alleviate “big brother” concerns and provide more extensive, accurate information.

What is your solution?

Worldwide contact tracing application with auto expire data using a foundation of cloud and mobile technology. The application is built on a data-centric architecture with built on graph theory, machine learning and AI features.

Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?

Every country, community and individual worldwide Is struggling with their response and access to meaningful data to respond to Cov-ID. Our contract tracing app is not limited to geography and puts the information, statistics and respect for privacy within the hands of the individual.

For health, safety and a sense of community within EVERY community, a single repository of information is required to respond, communicate and provide real data to determine proper responses.

Our solution addresses needs of the individual, state, country, government, healthcare providers and first responders.

Explain how the problem, your solution, and your solution’s target population relate to the Challenge.

Our application addresses the pandemic at a personal and geographical level to help control and better understand the spread and behaviors around this and any other pandemic at a community level.

Our contract tracing app is not limited to geography and puts the information, statistics and respect for privacy within the hands of the individual.

For health, safety and a sense of community within EVERY community, a single repository of information is required to respond, communicate and provide real data to determine proper responses.

Our solution addresses needs of the individual, state, country, government, healthcare providers and first responders.

In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?

Columbus, IN, USA

What is your solution’s stage of development?

Prototype: A venture or organization building and testing its product, service, or business model

Who is the primary delegate for your solution?

Steven Schilders, Executive Director and Architect