Innovating to Understand and Act
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Innovating to Understand and Act

Resilience – Episode 1

Microsoft | Societal Resilience
Microsoft, 2021
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As part of Microsoft’s “Societal Resilience” series, “Innovating to Understand and Act” examines how specialists across the globe worked together to tackle the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. With unprecedented speed and focus, and with a multidisciplinary approach, experts from around the world collaborated with Microsoft to produce cutting-edge solutions to this complex crisis. Astrophysicists, aerodynamics specialists, health metrics analysts and neuroscientists all contributed unique ways to solve a novel problem. While challenges remain, they model how cooperation is pivotal to human resilience. 

Summary

In 2020, world experts had to cooperate to face an extraordinary challenge: a global pandemic.

In times of crisis, science and technology “fuel discovery” and “magnify ingenuity” to help humanity become more resilient. For instance, when the novel coronavirus – SARS-CoV-2, the pathogen that causes COVID-19 – appeared in early 2020, Microsoft and its partners had to grasp and assess the data. Once people can understand a problem, they can overcome their fear and anxiety and work on solving it.

From the beginning, the Microsoft Research Outreach team knew they had to understand the virus at “the molecular and societal level.” At the University...

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Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation that produces computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services.

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