Paul drew my attention to whoissick.org, a site in which individuals are supposed to report their own symptoms and it provides analytical tools to break down their incidence, spatial concentration, and so on. Browsing through different areas, it does not yet seem very densely populated. (My own Lower East Side, one of the more densely settled areas in the United States, only shows a smattering of “reports.”) The best thing: you can receive outbreak alerts by email. Also, check out the symptom tag cloud on the lower right. This is our web 2.0 world.
COLLABORATORY: VITAL SYSTEMS SECURITY
The Vital Systems Security collaboration examines how, today, security is being constituted as an object of knowledge, intervention, and political reflection. It proposes that the security of vital systems such as energy, transportation, communication and health is one norm in relationship to which security is being reproblematized. A central goal of the collaboration is to examine these issues through collective, conceptually driven inquiry that addresses rapidly developing contemporary problems.
