Fwd: Tech to Stop Ebola full video package up now - Plus new Michael Pollan video

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Ebola, knowledge science

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> From: Peter Leyden <contact@reinventors.net>
> Subject: Tech to Stop Ebola full video package up now - Plus new Michael Pollan video
> Date: November 12, 2014 at 8:07:04 AM EST
> To: Michael <michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com>
> Reply-To: Peter Leyden <contact@reinventors.net>
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> Top innovators in video roundtables helping reinvent our world
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> We hit the high bar with this Reinvent Technology to Stop Ebola roundtable, done in partnership withT4A.org, and connected just the right mix of people to take action to help solve an important, pressing problem involving Ebola.
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> We brought together top representatives from inside government, including Claudia Williams, White House Senior Advisor for Health Technology and Innovation at the Office of Science and Technology Policy, to talk with top entrepreneurs who are developing new rapid diagnostic technologies that could help stop the spread of Ebola, like Garrett Gruener, Executive Chairman at Nanōmix and Founder ofAsk.Com. The goal was to figure out a better way to get the most promising of these technologies more quickly through various approval processes and into the field.
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> By the end of the session, Steven VanRoekel, Chief Innovation Officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), extended an offer to those on the roundtable to set up an ongoing consortium of tech companies to continue working on these issues and make real headway fast. The other participants were eager to volunteer.
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> Not bad for a conversation lasting 90 minutes.
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> Making progress in this area is imperative since the overwhelming consensus of this remarkable group was that Ebola will be an epidemic that we will have to continue to contain for many years due to periodic outbreaks. What's more, Ebola is just an early look at what could become more frequent appearances of more virulent viruses that will threaten to blow up into pandemics in the years ahead.
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> It is now crucial that we get good at moving new technologies quickly into the field.
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> Check out the full package, including the Trailer and the 10-minute Recap video, to find out more.
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> Peter Leyden
> Founder of Reinventors & Host of the Reinvent America series
> New Video: Call for a National Food Policy
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> Two weeks after Michael Pollan, bestselling author and a leading voice in the food movement, drove a terrific roundtable at Reinventors calling for a National Food Policy, he published an opinion piece in the Washington Post making a similar case.
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> In the same two weeks, we also created a new video featuring Pollan laying out his big idea from our roundtable, along with other footage that can help make the ideas more accessible to broader audiences.
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> Check out the new short, highly-produced video. In it, Pollan explains why we need a national food policy - much like we have an economic policy - that could reorient the goals for our systems of agriculture and food production and realign the resources of many federal departments currently at cross-purposes.
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> For more details, watch the full package, including the Promo, the Trailer, the 10-mintue Recap video and a blog post that explains it all in text, too.
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