Vitalik Buterin Donated $4 Million to University of New South Wales Researchers

Vitalike Buterin and Crypto Donations

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has donated USDC$4 million to the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia. The goal is to use UNSW's open-source artificial intelligence platform to send out alerts for pandemic early warning signs to avert worldwide pandemics. Buterin's Balvi Filantropic Fund made the donation possible. Buterin's cryptocurrency donation will help EPIWATCH continue to improve. Professor Raina MacIntyre created it as an open-source intelligence (OSINT) tool. The technology looks for early signs of epidemics by monitoring millions of publicly available web things, such as breaking news headlines and social networking platforms. It detects variations in 'normal' health-related reports. This is far more efficient than waiting for results from doctors and laboratories.

Vitalike Buterin and Crypto Donations

"The sooner we can detect new epidemics as they emerge, the faster we can create cures or possibly stop them before they grow large," Buterin added.

"Open data analysis is an excellent alternative to more invasive techniques of surveillance, which are frequently exclusively available to governments and other high-bidders but not to the general public. An open-source and open-access strategy, on the other hand, allows academics from all over the world to collaborate and can be more easily modified and scaled to detect new pandemics wherever they start."

UNSW's first crypto contribution comes from the Balvi Filantropic Fund. It's also estimated to be the greatest cryptocurrency donation to an Australian university.

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Vitalik Buterin Donated $4 Million to University of New South Wales Researchers

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