KT gets Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's W12b funding for epidemic research
May 17, 2020
Korean telecommunications firm KT will research for epidemic preparedness solutions, backed with 12 billion won ($9.7 million) in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. KT said Sunday that the philanthropic foundation had wished for an epidemics monitoring study carried out in Korea -- a country of widespread smartphone penetration equipped with 5G infrastructure. The research, called “A Next Generation Surveillance Study for Epidemic Preparedness,” will seek to dev