CIVIC TECH
I built an early vaccine-prioritization model and helped connect it to the practical work of getting doses to local sites.
Prototype- Role
- AI & Data Science Consultant
- Duration
- Jan – Mar 2021
- Team
- Civic technology startup
- Status
- Prototype
A priority list still needs a delivery plan
During a consulting engagement with a civic-technology startup in early 2021, I built its first vaccine-prioritization model. It used morbidity, age, occupation, income and population density, combining synthetic citizen records with population and occupation data. That model addressed who the service would prioritize. The next question was whether the delivery plan could serve them.
I co-designed a proposed distribution model and Tableau dashboards that traced the route from warehouses and cold-chain stages to local delivery. I compared required and projected daily vaccinations and looked at depot-to-booth transport costs. Putting those questions next to the priority model made it possible to discuss the operational requirements alongside the scoring.
Build the inputs behind the service
I also mapped all 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their indicators to public sources, including health, air-quality and environmental data. I benchmarked existing portals to help set requirements and worked on AWS document-processing flows for batch OCR and Hindi and Bengali translation.
The January to March engagement produced proposals, working models and prototype dashboards for the early stage of a civic-services platform. The vaccine work stayed at model and prototype scope, with no established deployment or adoption.
The record
What the evidence says.
- Sustainable Development Goals mapped to public data
- 17
- Prototype data layer
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