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Diem and the economy January 3, 2021 The Facebook Diem is a cryptocurrency that Facebook announced on June 18, 2019. The project was announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, but its creators are actually Morgan Beller (staff at Facebook blockchain division), David Marcus and Kevin Weil (Novi’s Vice President of product). The original plan for the proposed cryptocurrency was to create a stable coin that would be backed by a basket of assets (currencies like the Euro, Singapore dollar, US dollar, Pound sterling), but in November 2020, according to a report by The Financial Times, Facebook announce...

ISLAMABAD: As the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted life for many, including children in need of routine immunisation, Unicef Pakistan and Facebook have launched a campaign to promote life-saving immunisation. In countries like Pakistan, additional roadblocks as a result of the pandemic have been compounded by an existing hesitancy in some communities to vaccinate children as well as global disruptions to the delivery of immunisations. For this reason, Facebook’s Data for Good team recently worked in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) to better understand constra...

ISLAMABAD: As the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted life for many, including children in need of routine immunizations, Unicef Pakistan and Facebook have launched a campaign to promote life-saving immunization. In countries like Pakistan, additional roadblocks as a result of the pandemic have been compounded by an existing hesitancy in some communities to vaccinate children as well as global disruptions to the delivery of immunizations. For this reason, Facebook’s Data for Good team recently worked in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) to better understand constrai...

Share: In partnership with Facebook Data for Good, the Delphi Group at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the Joint Program on Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland (UMD), the Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy, and Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies Catalyst @ Health 2.0, the industry leader in digital health strategic partnering, announced today DeepOutbreak as the winner and The COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge looked for novel analytic approaches that use COVID-19 Symptom Survey data to enable earlier detection and improved situational awareness of th...