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KT partners with Ghana government for epidemic preparedness

Via KT

Nov 22, 2018

  • KT Signs Agreement with Ghana Health Service for Disease Prevention
  • Korean Telecom Leader Brings Technology to Help People Around World

SEOUL, South Korea (November 22, 2018) – KT Corporation (KRX: 030200; NYSE: KT), South Korea’s largest telecommunications company, reached a milestone deal with Ghana to fight epidemics last week to help people in Africa and other parts of the world with the company’s innovative technology.

The Korean telecom leader signed an agreement on the use of Big Data in preventing infectious diseases with the Ghana Health Service on November 16. Attendees at the signing ceremony in Accra, Ghana, included Yoon Jong-Jin, KT’s senior executive vice president in charge of public relations and Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare, director-general of Ghana Health Service (GHS).

Other key figures are Kim Sung-Soo, Ambassador of Korean Embassy of Ghana, Michael Melchior, Country Director of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Ghana, Dr. Owen Laws Kaluwa, Ghana Country Representative of the World Health Organization (WHO), Fiachra McAsey, Deputy Representative of UNICEF Ghana, and Mr. Yukyum Kim, Country Director of KOICA Ghana.

KT Corp.’s agreement on disease control, its first with a public health agency, has drawn attention from the international health community, especially because of Ghana’s location in West Africa. In 2014–16, the region suffered the most widespread Ebola virus epidemic in recorded history, while there is no confirmed Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) case in Ghana to date, according to the WHO.

“We will help Ghana take the initiative in healthcare in West Africa,” KT’s Yoon said. “We will go beyond Africa and push for disease prevention in other parts of the world where the infrastructure for healthcare and education is still developing.”

KT’s disease prevention system analyzes location-based information including roaming data that it collects, uses the data to guide its customers on preventing epidemics, and builds a monitoring system that helps health authorities assess infection risk at the initial stage of an outbreak.

KT started work on the system in 2016 with the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Information Society Agency to demonstrate how Big Data can be used in disease control. The project came a year after MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) hit Korea. Now it is regarded as a showcase of collaboration between the public and private sectors.

Based on the project’s success, KT is seeking collaboration with foreign governments and international organizations on the use of Big Data and information technology in preventing the spread of infectious diseases. To that end, the Korean company suggested a Global Epidemic Prevention Platform at the World Economic Forum’s annual conference in January this year.

As a global leader in ICT, KT is also calling on Asian countries to participate in its project. Among the target countries is the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR). KT will seek to launch an epidemic prevention project with both the Lao Ministry of Health and the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare (KOFIH), a public affiliate of South Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare.

KT dispatched volunteer IT workers to Laos together with the KOFIH and KT Group Hope Sharing Foundation, the company’s social contribution organization, from November 11–17. The KT employee volunteer group provided IT equipment for quarantine stations at Wattay International Airport and the Lao-Thai Friendship Bridge.

The IT volunteers trained officials of the Lao Ministry of Health’s Department of Communicable Diseases Control on using computers, smartphones and software to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. KT volunteers visited an elementary school in Vientiane along with the Africa-Asia Development Relief Foundation, a Korean NGO, where students learned about IT, VR (virtual reality) and other subjects.

Officials from KT Corporation, Ghana Health Service (GHS), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO) and other related agencies are photographed during a signing ceremony between KT and GHS on the use of Big Data in preventing infectious diseases on November 16. They include:

Front row (from left): Fiachra McAsey, Deputy Representative, UNICEF, Ghana, Dr. Badu Sarkodie, Director of Public Health Division, GHS, Kim Sung-Soo, Ambassador of Korean Embassy of Ghana, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare, Director-General, GHS, Yoon Jong-Jin, Senior Executive Vice President, Public Relations Office, KT, Lee Sun-Joo, , Senior Vice President, Sustainability Management Unit, KT. Second row (from left): Dr. Owen Laws Kaluwa, WHO Country Representative of Ghana, Dr. Michael Melchior, Country Director of CDC Ghana, Kim Yu-Kyum, Country Director of KOICA Ghana, Lee Hoon-Sang, Health Advisor, Seo Il-Won, Head of Good Neighbors Ghana.

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