develop a framework that would enable people in need to communicate their requirements<\/a> to the world and relevant authorities so they coordinate to assist disaster victims on time.\u201d<\/p>\nThe COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 presented a disaster of a different kind, affecting billions of people worldwide and exposing significant vulnerabilities in global healthcare supply chains.<\/p>\n
Critical shortages of essential supplies like testing kits, oxygen cylinders and hospital beds highlighted the urgent need for efficient resource allocation and real-time information.<\/p>\n
How AI can improve urgent disaster responses and supplies<\/h3>\n \u201cThis situation reignited my early motivation to explore how social media and AI could be harnessed for faster disaster response and to mitigate health and supply challenges during crises,\u201d Kumar explained.<\/p>\n
The research that followed presented a four-step process and developed algorithms to parse information from 3.9 million tweets and identify imperative information using AI and machine learning.<\/p>\n
Keywords within Twitter posts were identified to indicate which tweets included information relevant to pandemic supply chain disruptions and processed for content analysis and modelling.<\/p>\n
Tweets were categorised as \u2018imperative\u2019 or actionable pleas for help, and \u2018non-imperative\u2019 providing non-actionable information.<\/p>\n
The data also estimated the geographic location of imperative tweets lacking geo-tag information to facilitate the co-ordination of disaster responses.<\/p>\n
Supply chain shortages in the future<\/h3>\n Additionally, the researchers identified a number of healthcare supply chain challenges during disaster conditions that will be the focus of future research.<\/p>\n
Topics included:<\/p>\n
\nThe geo-location of people in need who posted their concerns on social media without identifying their location<\/li>\n Forecasting COVID-19 vaccine supplies<\/li>\n Forecasting the availability of health and food supplies<\/li>\n Use of other social media (such as Facebook, Instagram, etc.)<\/li>\n Finding where these improvements would be applicable to other disaster events, such as hurricanes and earthquakes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u201cWe also plan to develop a platform\/tool that will scan the social media posts from the disaster events and generate real-time reports of demand and supply issues and people with their geo-locations requesting help,\u201d Kumar concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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