SBIR Phase I: Coronavirus API (COVID-19)

这个小企业创新研究第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是，围绕监测和响应新冠肺炎的公共卫生目标，加快开发公共卫生数据的数字基础设施信任层。该项目将通过将区块链技术应用于公共卫生数据来提供信任和可访问性，将其转换为经过验证、法律加权和防篡改的数据，公共和私营部门的决策者可以从中受益。这种新技术解决方案的创新组合将使产品、数据分析、预测建模系统以及基于有组织和受信任的系统的ESG(环境、社会和治理)响应能力更好。由于私营企业以及公共部门和普通公众都在使用公共卫生统计数据，因此在公共卫生数据中更广泛地增加信任层是很重要的，因为统计数据的保真度对于有效的个人和组织行动至关重要。该项目的目标是开发工具和做法，通过加密技术提供权威、可靠的数据，并使更多的个人和组织能够获得。该项目的范围是开发聚合、访问和报告系统，以支持新的去中心化经济，如智能合同市场，同时保持传统技术用户的互操作性和可访问性。该解决方案需要创建一个单一、值得信赖的平台，将新兴区块链方法的研究、开发和商业应用与一套支持技术和系统结合起来，包括：分布式数据基础设施、灵活的交付方法、直观的界面和分析工具。这项研究希望能够创造新的资源来支持可信度，从而支持所有公共卫生数据记录的基本有用性。预期成果包括：使用区块链支持的系统改善数据完整性，支持数据驱动决策加速创新的工具，以及由区块链管理的新冠肺炎资源的原型市场。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to accelerate development of a digital infrastructure trust layer for public health data around monitoring and responding to COVID-19 public health objectives. This project will provide both trust and accessibility through the application of blockchain technology to public health data to transform it into verified, legally weighted, and tamper resistant data upon which decision makers in the public and private sector can benefit. This innovative combination of new technological solutions will allow for better products, data analytics, predictive modelling systems, and ESG (environmental, social and governance) responsiveness based on organized and trusted systems. Since public health statistics are used by private enterprise as well as the public sector and the general public, the addition of a trust layer to public health data more widely is important as fidelity in statistics is critical to effective individual and organizational action.This project’s goal is to develop tools and practices to make authoritative, reliable data available, enabled by cryptographic techniques and accessible to a broader set of individuals and organizations. The scope of the project looks to develop aggregation, access, and reporting systems which can support new decentralized economics, such as smart contract marketplaces, while remaining interoperable and accessible to users of legacy technology. The solution requires creation of a single, trustworthy platform that combines research, development and commercial application of emerging blockchain approaches with a suite of supporting technologies and systems including: distributed data infrastructure, flexible delivery methods, intuitive interfaces, and analytics tools. This research hopes to allow for the creation of novel resources to support the trustworthiness and consequently, the fundamental usefulness of all public health data records. The expected outcomes include: improved data integrity using blockchain-backed systems, tools enabling accelerated innovation in data driven decision making, and a prototype marketplace for COVID-19 resources managed by blockchain.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.