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In a joint research project between public health and nutrition researchers at the University of Helsinki and biostatistics and market research specialists at Tampere University, researchers received consent to use grocery purchase data from 47,000 individual loyalty card holders accross Finland over a 3-year period.
The collected data consists of about 1.3 million transactions. Card-holders responded to questionnaires designed to analyse food consumption, socio-economic background, nutrition literacy and food-selection motives. As well as enabling them to model and analyse the food and nutrition habits of the Finnish population, researchers worked with the research subjects to build a personalized “dietary quality of food purchases” feedback system to the card owners.
A panel will follow with scientists, business and policy leaders to advance the design of integrative digital architecture and governance framework to scale up how real-world data generated by individuals, organizations and institutions within and across disciplines, sectors and jurisdictions can contribute to a World reset on convergence economy, while embedding throughout ethical, social and privacy into efficiency, agility and resilience considerations. Capitalizing on digital transformation of science and society, convergence economy takes a person-centered approach to bridging organizations and systems across sectors and jurisdictions, fully acknowledging that developed and developing worlds share the same planet, for world-scale transformation toward sustainable prosperity and affordable nutri-tion and health. Panelists will discuss how data, models and theories characterizing all multiscale processes involved can inform the design and long-term performance of ecosystems of platforms targeting achievable and time-bound real-world solutions placing human and envi-ronmental health and their preservation/remediation/care systems at the core of its wealth and social wellbeing creation engines.
The Convergent Innovation Webinar Series, organised by the McGill University in Montreal, features cutting edge science, technology and innovation in agri-culture, food, environment, education, medicine and other domains of everyday life where grand challenges lie at the convergence of health and economics. Powered by data science, artificial intelligence, and other digital technologies, this disciplinary knowledge bridges with be-havioural, social, humanities, business, economics, social, engineering, and complexity sciences to accelerate real-world solution at scale, be it in digital or physical contexts. Initiated in the agri-food domain, the series is now encompassing other grand challenges facing modern and traditional economies and societies, such as ensuring lifelong wellness and resilience at both the individual and population levels.
