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Indonesian engineer combatting bird flu by CDMA

Mar 27, 2007 11:32

It's good news. Instead of negotiating a contract to sell the Avian flu virus samples to an American vaccine company, an Indonesian engineer has created a new technology to combat against bird flu and has been awarded an international grant from Qualcomm, a leading developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and other advanced wireless technologies.

The statistics indicate that bird flu has infected 81 people in Indonesia, killing 63, since the first human case was identified here in July 2005. Globally, there have been 165 fatalities from 271 human infections.

Bandung Institute of Technology's PhD student Ria L. Moedomo has successfully created an application which provides a system to assist in processing and analyzing poultry sales and the distribution process to track and combat against Avian Influenza.

She is one of several grant recipients from Qualcomm, each receiving US$100,000 who plan to develop a variety of advanced BREW applications with the support of Qualcomm's funding program.

Bandung Institute of Technology's PhD student Ria L. Moedomo, and Jeffery A. Jacobs, executive vice president and president, Global Development Qualcomm, and Indonesian Information Minister Sofyan Djalil.

Jeffery A. Jacobs, executive vice president and president, Global Development Qualcomm in Jakarta, recently said that the US$1 million fund is designed to increase the availability of useful wireless applications in countries around the world.

The other grant recipients in these schemes are Dr Arun Pande (Tata Consultancy Services, India), Lenny Zhang, chief executive officer (Beijing InfoQuick SinoVoice Speech Technology Corp.), Shahin Bakhshandeh and Chris Ungson, Sarah De Young (BeWell Mobile Technology Inc.), and Dr John Canny (University of California, Berkeley).

"The grant winners in Qualcomm's Wireless Reach BREW Application Funding Program have shown an exceptional understanding of the challenges faced by developing regions," said Shawn A. Covell, senior director of International Affairs for Qualcomm and head of the Wireless Reach Initiative.

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