Blog 7: Partnerships

Partnerships

  1. World Hope
    1. What constituted the partnership?
      1. Use of vehicles
      2. Transportation
      3. Connections to use on the ground resources
    2. How did the partner help you? How did you help them?
      1. Transportation
      2. Connections to use on the ground resources
      3. Helped them serve the SL community
    3. Was this a symbiotic relationship? Why or why not?
      1. Yes, they provided us with invaluable knowledge but we compensated them for transportation costs, employees, etc
    4.  What would help strengthen this partnership and make it more equitable?
      1. More collaboration with SLeans in the project specifically
  2. Translators
    1. What constituted the partnership?
      1. They translated for the project
    2. How did the partner help you? How did you help them?
      1. We paid them in exchange for a service
    3. Was this a symbiotic relationship? Why or why not?
      1. Yes, we compensated them and they translated for us
      2. We tended to set hours and plan most of the logistics
    4. What would help strengthen this partnership and make it more equitable?
      1. Utilizing their unique insights can
      2. Balance power a little more

 

  1. Statistics SL
    1. What constituted the partnership?
      1. They are helping us with implementing a survey
      2. Giving us data sets from previously administered surveys
    2. How did the partner help you? How did you help them?
      1. We are providing knowledge and information that could potentially benefit SL
      2. If successful it will benefit both of us reputations
    3. Was this a symbiotic relationship? Why or why not?
      1. Yes, we both benefit from what we each bring to the table
    4. What would help strengthen this partnership and make it more equitable?
      1. Collaborating on the survey that they create using the information we gained from our surveys
  2. Ministry of Health
    1. What constituted the partnership?
      1. Exchange of information including data sets and connections
    2. How did the partner help you? How did you help them?
      1. Exchange of information including data sets and connections
      2. Information about EVD that could help public health in SL
    3. Was this a symbiotic relationship? Why or why not?
      1. We haven’t come to an agreement about how we will collaborate but ultimately both of us will benefit from the results of our research
    4. What would help strengthen this partnership and make it more equitable?
  3. Vaffoley
    1. What constituted the partnership?
      1. He proofread our survey and helped with questions
    2. How did the partner help you? How did you help them?
      1. He proofread our survey and helped with questions
    3. Was this a symbiotic relationship? Why or why not?
      1. He didn’t really gain anything specific but likely cares about his home country and has a stake in benefitting it
    4. What would help strengthen this partnership and make it more equitable?
      1. He could potentially collaborate with us in the future and we could give him credit/acknowledgment
  4. Psychology Professor (Advisor)
    1. What constituted the partnership?
      1. She provides her advice on designing our survey
    2. How did the partner help you? How did you help them?
      1. She gave advice on what made sense from a questionnaire point of view.
    3. Was this a symbiotic relationship? Why or why not?
      1. Nope, she got nothing in return
    4. What would help strengthen this partnership and make it more equitable?
      1. We could provide her with some Authorship
  5. Dr. Buecta & Dr. Bocchini (Lehigh University) Key advisors
    1. What constituted the partnership?
      1. They agree to act as advisors and help with gathering research while we put their names on our research and gave them credit.
    2. How did the partner help you? How did you help them?
      1. They provided advice and consoling on to initially conduct research
      2. The provided access to tool and knowledge we wouldn’t be able
    3. Was this a symbiotic relationship? Why or why not?
      1. Yes they received credit for the work we did, while we got resources as well as knowledge in exchange
    4. What would help strengthen this partnership and make it more equitable?
      1. Honestly, I don’t think we can.
  6. Google Earth Engine (Micro Partnership)
    1. What constituted the partnership?
      1. Google provided us with data, in exchange for processing power and   on the Platform
    2. How did the partner help you? How did you help them?
      1. They help us gather data, in large quantities quickly and effectively
      2. Kept upkeep and wrote code that they could use to gather data.
    3. Was this a symbiotic relationship? Why or why not?
      1. Yes, we both received value for our actions, but I think we got the better end because we put up zero money.
    4. What would help strengthen this partnership and make it more equitable?
      1. If we could find a way to get a service license, then we could provide them with money in exchange for more access.
  7. NIH
    1. What constituted the partnership?
      1. We are contracted to do the mission of our project in exchange for money and resources.
    2. How did the partner help you? How did you help them?
      1. They provide money and their reputation, which allowed us to cut through red tape
    3. Was this a symbiotic relationship? Why or why not?
      1. I mean we receive money in exchange for producing research so I believe we have a symbiotic relationship
    4. What would help strengthen this partnership and make it more equitable?
      1. If we could have more contact between us and be allowed to access more of their human capital could help us, and the interaction might help with stimulating new concepts
  8. Fulcrum (Micro Partner)
    1. What constituted the partnership?
      1. We paid them to store our data in exchange for money.
    2. How did the partner help you? How did you help them?
      1. They provided an easy to use platform that allowed us to collect data and upload it remotely. It also allowed us to geo-locate easily and store location.
    3. Was this a symbiotic relationship? Why or why not?
      1. They received money in exchange for allowing us to use their service.
    4. What would help strengthen this partnership and make it more equitable?
      1. I think we can, they also aren’t that important

 

Who’s in the Coalition: Ebola Busters

  1. Core Stakeholders
    1. African Union
    2. Aid Organization
    3. World Hope International
    4. Ministry of Health
    5. Statistic SL
    6. Medical suppliers
  2. Opinion Leaders
    1. MSF
    2. NIH
    3. WHO
    4. CDC
    5. Ministry of Health
  3. Policy Makers
    1. Ministry of Health
    2. CDC
    3. WHO
    4. NIH
    5. Massanga Hospital
  4. Resource Partners
    1. Other researchers in the field- knowledge
    2. Dr. Bocchini & Dr. Buecta
    3. Lehigh University
    4. World Hope International
  5. Signaling Partners
    1. Ministry of Health
    2. MSF (Doctors without borders)
    3. NIH
    4. WHI
  6. First responders & where the money comes from
    1. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

The original goal would be to start with the local government in Sierra Leone as well as the partners they have in-country (aka WHI). Then after we have created a partnership with the key players in Sierra Leone, the next goal would be to leverage those partners to jump onto bigger players like the key player across West Africa, like MSF and the rest of the region’s governments. After we got them on board we would target East Africa in the same sense as we did start in a country and then moving on the greater region’s government once you have traction. After this, we would target the major funders and players of medicine in the world (aka WHO, NIH, CDC), by leveraging the governments and partnership we had grown on the ground in Africa.

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