IBM’s Corporate Service Corps Comes to Australia to collaborate with Royal Flying Doctors Service, World Wildlife Fund and The Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland
Since 2008, IBM’s Corporate Service Corps program has sent teams of the company’s most talented employees to provide pro bono counsel to countries in the developing world that are grappling with issues that intersect business, technology, and society.
The initiative deploys teams of IBM employees from around the world with skills in technology, scientific research, marketing, finance, human resources, law, and economic development. Team members are selected through a competitive application process.
In 2018 the Corporate Service Corps is expanding globally. Pilot projects are taking place in Australia, Canada and the United States. Tomorrow the first of these projects will begin in Brisbane, Australia.
From August 6 -August 31 Fourteen IBMers from eight countries will collaborate with their partner organizations to investigate, research and recommend the best ways to capture and harness data for better outcomes and use existing combined with state-of-the-art technology to improve their service delivery or advance their research to solve problems.
In Brisbane seven of the team members will be collaborating with the iconic Royal Flying Doctors Service (RFDS) on two projects. 1. Identify ways for RFDS to enhance data analysis capacity in order to improve their resourcing capability such as planning and mobilizing their doctors, nurses and aircraft to the neediest places in a short turn-over time. 2. Review the current patient-clinician tele-health pathway to assess what technology enhancements could be made to improve patient health outcomes.
Seven other IBMers will collaborate with World Wildlife Fund(WWF) in conjunction with The Global Change Institute(GCI) at the University of Queensland on two projects focused on coral reef conservation. 1. Identify ways that advanced data technologies (big data techniques, cognitive analysis, artificial intelligence, internet of things) can improve the understanding of coral reefs, the complex suite of threats that affect them, and approaches to informing conservation action. 2. Identify data, including non-traditional data sources that will provide information improving for better understanding of the health of coral reefs, and the pressures they are facing now and in the future.
Over the coming days and weeks, you will meet the IBMers, and the people they are collaborating with through this blog as they share their discovery and collaboration.
