UNGA79

 Well, we did it.   We put together a 9 minute, 58 second (have to stay under 10 minutes, right?) movie about the Virtual 3D Global Health Observatory for the 4th annual Digital Health Symposium at the United Nations 79th annual meeting.  See it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV-7NSYLd7c

Fair warning.   I am awaiting imminent surgery to aid a mobility issue, so I elected to send a movie rather than attend.   Martin Curley, the host (and director of the Maynooth University Innovation Values Institute (IVI), elected to showcase the movie in two different break-out sessions, which resulted in some great exposure for the 84 presenters over three days.   

We anticipate follow-up in three directions.

1. InnovaScapes Institute will donate our 1,024 day COVID database for 3,141 US counties and 196 countries to the Innovation Values Institute for the first fully operational Observatory that they support.

2. AstroVirtual will provide a 5 session seminar workshop for medical researchers on the use of these tools, with a follow-on 5 session advanced seminar depending upon interest.

3. IVI is sponsoring a pan-European Digital Health initiative, with the Observatory as one ingredient.

These kinds of projeccts don't happen overnight, but when they get some traction, the results can be truly inspirational.   We are proud to be part of the developing program.