Recoding the Red Cross
(World News Science)

Imagine, for a moment, you`re sick. A disease is spreading around you, and the information that could stop it escalating is inaccessible. Despite every advance in medicine and an increasingly connected world, this is a nightmare that all too many people are living today. The problem is especially pronounced in the developing world. Unlocking data to the benefit of science and medicine is one of the remaining great technological quests. For example, when a cholera epidemic began a deadly march across Sierra Leone in 2012, the paper based data collection process on the ground meant information sharing and trend analysis was slow and imprecise. With technology already helping to make miracles...